The author of Hebrews compared Christ to the angels in order to lay the foundation for his argument that Christianity is superior to Judaism. Although today’s average Gentile reader doesn’t realize it, the Jew believed that the Old Testament law (and thus his religion) was given by angels. (See Acts 7:35; Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 2:2.) The writer therefore began his comparison of the two ages, or the two religious systems,