In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.*
Hebrews 2:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Avraham. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For, as we all know, He [Christ] did not take hold of angels [the fallen angels, to give them a helping and delivering hand], but He did take hold of [the fallen] descendants of Abraham [to reach out to them a helping and delivering hand]. [Isa. 41:8, 9.] American Standard Version (1901) For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he giveth help to the seed of Abraham. Common English Bible Of course, he isn’t trying to help angels, but rather he’s helping Abraham’s descendants. Catholic Public Domain Version For at no time did he take hold of the Angels, but instead he took hold of the offspring of Abraham. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold. |
In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.*
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Now the promises were spoken to Avraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, *To seeds,* as of many, but as of one, *To your seed,* which is Messiah.
If you are Messiah's, then you are Avraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful Kohen Gadol in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,