than the human prophets of the Old Testament. B. THE SUPERIORITY OF GOD’S SON OVER ANGELS (1:4–2:18) (In the midst of this argument is found the first of the great parenthetical warnings of this book, 2:1–4. The First Covenant was given from Mt. Sinai through angels, the heavenly mediators, and through Moses, the human mediator, Deut. 33:2; Acts 7:38, 53; Gal. 3:19; Heb. 2:2. This is the Old Testament’s shadow of the joining of the divine and the human in the incarnation of Christ, making him the
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