Hebrews

Moffatt^{(i) 1} Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, ² but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son — a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world. ³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; ⁴ and thus he is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a Name superior to theirs. ⁵ For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'? ⁶ And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.' ⁷ While he says of angels, 'Who makes his angels into winds, his servants into flames of fire,' ⁸ he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity: ⁹ thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' — ¹⁰ and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands; ¹¹ they will perish, but thou remainest, they will all be worn out like a garment, ¹² thou wilt roll them up like a mantle and they win be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years will never fail.' ¹³ To what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'? ¹⁴ Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation?