# Hebrews 1.1-4 **Book:** [Hebrews](/codex/hebrews/) · NASB95 ## Immediate context (±2 verses) **ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/)) > **1. God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, 2. hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; 3. who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4. having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.** > > 5. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son? 6. And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. (Hebrews 1:1-6, ASV) **WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/)) > **1. God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2. has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. 3. His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4. having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.** > > 5. For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?” 6. When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.” (Hebrews 1:1-6, WEB) **KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/)) > **1. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4. Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.** > > 5. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? 6. And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. again: or, when he bringeth again (Hebrews 1:1-6, KJV) **YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/)) > **1. In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, 2. in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; 3. who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might, through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest, 4. having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.** > > 5. For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?' 6. and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, 'And let them bow before him, all messengers of God;' (Hebrews 1:1-6, YLT) ## Setting - **Speaker:** _TBD_ - **Audience:** _TBD_ - **Location:** _TBD_ - **Time period:** _TBD_ ## Theological reading _Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._ ## Key words _Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap._ - _TBD_ - _TBD_ - _TBD_ - _TBD_ ## Quoted in **Arguments and defeaters:** - [Anointing Implies Subordination Objection Defeater](/codex/anointing-implies-subordination-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Anselms Four-Dimensionalist Eternity](/codex/anselms-four-dimensionalist-eternity/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Anthropology vs Epistemology Priority Objection Defeater](/codex/anthropology-vs-epistemology-priority-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Argument from Mathematics (Guillen)](/codex/argument-from-mathematics-guillen/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Argument from Physics (Guillen)](/codex/argument-from-physics-guillen/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Argument from the Continuance of Being](/codex/argument-from-the-continuance-of-being/), via [Hebrews 1.2-3](/codex/hebrews-1-2-3/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Argument from the Mirror-Recognition Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-mirror-recognition-convergence/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Argument from the Pre-Given Logos](/codex/argument-from-the-pre-given-logos/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Argument from the Question-Asking Asymmetry](/codex/argument-from-the-question-asking-asymmetry/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Argument from the Reality of Mathematical Infinity](/codex/argument-from-the-reality-of-mathematical-infinity/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Bible Contradictions Objection Defeater](/codex/bible-contradictions-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Cains Wife Objection Defeater](/codex/cains-wife-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.1](/codex/hebrews-1-1/) - [Divine Hiddenness Objection Defeater](/codex/divine-hiddenness-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Faith is Belief Without Evidence Objection Defeater](/codex/faith-is-belief-without-evidence-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [First Way - Motion](/codex/first-way-motion/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Hand of God Argument](/codex/hand-of-god-argument/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Jesus Has a God Therefore Not God Objection Defeater](/codex/jesus-has-a-god-therefore-not-god-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Jesus Never Claimed to Be God Objection Defeater](/codex/jesus-never-claimed-to-be-god-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Meta-Ontological Argument for Theism](/codex/meta-ontological-argument-for-theism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Necessary Being is an Intelligent Mind](/codex/necessary-being-is-an-intelligent-mind/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Necessity of the Incarnation](/codex/necessity-of-the-incarnation/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Quran Confirms Jesus is God Argument](/codex/quran-confirms-jesus-is-god-argument/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Quran Confirms the Trinity Argument](/codex/quran-confirms-the-trinity-argument/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Second Way - Efficient Causality](/codex/second-way-efficient-causality/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Stealing from God Argument](/codex/stealing-from-god-argument/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Third Way - Contingency](/codex/third-way-contingency/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Tower of Babel Objection Defeater](/codex/tower-of-babel-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Transcendental Argument for God](/codex/transcendental-argument-for-god/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Trinity Invented at Nicaea Objection Defeater](/codex/trinity-invented-at-nicaea-objection-defeater/) - [Unitarian Oneness Binitarian Objection Defeater](/codex/unitarian-oneness-binitarian-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Why Didnt Jesus Write Anything Himself Objection Defeater](/codex/why-didnt-jesus-write-anything-himself-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Why Doesnt God Stop Satan Objection Defeater](/codex/why-doesnt-god-stop-satan-objection-defeater/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) **Concepts:** - [A Quick-Glance Guide to Aquinas Five Ways](/codex/a-quick-glance-guide-to-aquinas-five-ways/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Arianism](/codex/arianism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Cains Wife](/codex/cains-wife/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Christ is God](/codex/christ-is-god/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Christ Was Made (Misread Proof-Texts)](/codex/christ-was-made-misread-proof-texts/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Christianity](/codex/christianity/) - [Christology](/codex/christology/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Christs Deity](/codex/christs-deity/) - [Concurrentism](/codex/concurrentism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Conservation Laws](/codex/conservation-laws/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Divine Providence](/codex/divine-providence/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Doctrine](/codex/doctrine/) - [Father-Son Authority Asymmetry](/codex/father-son-authority-asymmetry/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [God is Impossible Paradox Cluster](/codex/god-is-impossible-paradox-cluster/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Hearing God](/codex/hearing-god/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Hypostatic Union](/codex/hypostatic-union/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Idealism](/codex/idealism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Incarnation](/codex/incarnation/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Inspiration](/codex/inspiration/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Islamic Dilemma](/codex/islamic-dilemma/), via [Hebrews 1.1-12](/codex/hebrews-1-1-12/) - [Jehovahs Witnesses](/codex/jehovahs-witnesses/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Jesus Said](/codex/jesus-said/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Kalimatullah](/codex/kalimatullah/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Laws of the Universe as Witness to Design](/codex/laws-of-the-universe-as-witness-to-design/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Lesson 2.3, The Doctrine of God](/codex/lesson-2-3-the-doctrine-of-god/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Lesson 2.4, Christology in One Lesson](/codex/lesson-2-4-christology-in-one-lesson/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/) - [Logos Christology](/codex/logos-christology/) - [Miaphysitism vs Dyophysitism](/codex/miaphysitism-vs-dyophysitism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Modalism](/codex/modalism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Mormonism](/codex/mormonism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Occasionalism](/codex/occasionalism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Old Testament Christology](/codex/old-testament-witness-to-the-deity-of-christ/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) - [Oneness Pentecostalism](/codex/oneness-pentecostalism/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Pantheism](/codex/pantheism/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Spiritualism](/codex/spiritualism/), via [Hebrews 1.1-2](/codex/hebrews-1-1-2/) - [Tahrif](/codex/tahrif/), via [Hebrews 1.1-12](/codex/hebrews-1-1-12/) - [Trinity Plural-Hebrew-Noun Stack](/codex/trinity-plural-hebrew-noun-stack/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [Trinity vs Oneness vs Modalism vs Arianism](/codex/trinity-vs-oneness-vs-modalism-vs-arianism/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/), [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) **People:** - [Boethius](/codex/boethius/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) **Lexicon:** - [G0165 - aion](/codex/g0165-aion/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/) - [G0225 - aletheia](/codex/g0225-aletheia/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G1096 - ginomai](/codex/g1096-ginomai/), via [Hebrews 1.4](/codex/hebrews-1-4/) - [G1391 - doxa](/codex/g1391-doxa/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G1504 - eikon](/codex/g1504-eikon/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G2320 - theotes](/codex/g2320-theotes/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G2758 - kenoo](/codex/g2758-kenoo/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G2937 - ktisis](/codex/g2937-ktisis/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/) - [G3004 - lego](/codex/g3004-lego/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G3686 - onoma](/codex/g3686-onoma/), via [Hebrews 1.4](/codex/hebrews-1-4/) - [G3956 - pas](/codex/g3956-pas/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [G5207 - huios](/codex/g5207-huios/), via [Hebrews 1.2](/codex/hebrews-1-2/) - [G5287 - hypostasis](/codex/g5287-hypostasis/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [H0120 - adam](/codex/h0120-adam/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [H3519 - kavod](/codex/h3519-kavod/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) - [H7218 - rosh](/codex/h7218-rosh/), via [Hebrews 1.3](/codex/hebrews-1-3/) **Guides:** - [02 Faith and Worldview](/codex/02-faith-and-worldview/), via [Hebrews 1.1-3](/codex/hebrews-1-1-3/) **Passages:** - [John 1.1-18](/codex/john-1-1-18/) --- _Scripture quotations taken from the **New American Standard Bible®** (NASB), Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by **The Lockman Foundation**. Used by permission. All rights reserved. [www.lockman.org](https://www.lockman.org)_ ## Why these four translations ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance. The four: - **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition. - **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English. - **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base. - **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff. See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.