These words form the

beginning of a marvelous passage the subject of which is “Christ our

Representative.” That He might become our Representative, the inspired writer

teaches, it was needful that He should identify Himself with us. Therefore it

was that He became man.

Language had been exhausted to exhibit the

divine dignity of our Representative. In contrast with those men of God, the

prophets, in whom God dwelt and through whom God spoke, He is called a Son

through whom the worlds were made and by the word of whose power all things are

upheld; who is the effulgence of God’s glory and the very impression of His

substance. In contrast with the most exalted of the creatures of God, the

angels, He is given the more excellent name of the Son of God, His firstborn,

whom all the angels of God shall worship; nay, He is given the name of the

almighty and righteous God Himself, of the eternal Lord, who in the beginning

laid the foundations of the earth and framed the heavens, and who shall abide

the same when heaven and earth wax old and pass away.