002:002 For if the message delivered through angels proved to be true,
and every transgression and act of disobedience met
with just retribution,
002:003 how shall *we* escape if we are indifferent to a salvation as great as that now offered to us? This, after having first of all been announced by the Lord Himself, had its truth made sure to us by those who heard Him,
002:004 while God corroborated their testimony by signs and marvels and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed in accordance with His own will.
002:005 It is not to angels that God has assigned the sovereignty of that coming world, of which we speak.
002:006 But, as we know, a writer has solemnly said, "How poor a creature
is man, and yet Thou dost remember him, and a son of man,
and yet Thou dost come to him!
002:007 Thou hast made him only a little inferior to the angels;
with glory and honour Thou hast crowned him, and hast set
him to govern the works of Thy hands.
002:008 Thou hast put everything in subjection under his feet."
For this subjecting of the universe to man implies the leaving
nothing not subject to him. But we do not as yet see
the universe subject to him.
002:009 But Jesus—who was made a little inferior to the angels in order
that through God's grace He might taste death for every
human being—we already see wearing a crown of glory and honour
because of His having suffered death.
002:010 For it was fitting that He for whom, and through whom,
all things exist, after He had brought many sons to glory,
should perfect by suffering the Prince Leader who had saved them.
002:011 For both He who sanctifies and those whom He is sanctifying
have all one Father; and for this reason He is not ashamed
to speak of them as His brothers;