Hebrews 1 Bible study: The radiance of his glory

Hebrews begins, "God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways" (1:1). In Greek, the letter opens with the two words behind at many times and in various ways, joined by and. Strong's gives each as an adverb from a compound of G4183, the word it gives as "(plural) many", with another word (tap at many times and various ways).

Hebrews 1:1

The letter begins with God, and with God speaking: "God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways," (1:1) "has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son" (1:2) (tap at many times and various ways). These two verses set three things side by side: when, "in the past" and "at the end of these days"; to whom, "to the fathers" and "to us"; and through whom, "through the prophets" and "by his Son" (1:1-2). The next verse begins with "His Son" (1:3).

2 Samuel 7:14→leads toHebrews 1:5

"I will be his father, and he will be my son" (7:14). 1 Chronicles 17:13 has the same words. Hebrews speaks of the Son by whom God "has at the end of these days spoken to us" (Hebrews 1:2), and asks, "For to which of the angels did he say at any time" (Hebrews 1:5) the two sayings it then gives; the second is "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son" (Hebrews 1:5). Hebrews quotes only the first half of 7:14; the verse goes on, "If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men" (7:14).

ἀπαύγασμαapaugasmasay ap-OW-gas-mah

Strong's: "an off-flash, i.e. effulgence". "His Son is the radiance of his glory" (1:3): behind radiance is this noun, and the New Testament has it only here (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares).