4. having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.
5. For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'
6. and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him--all messengers of God;'
7. and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'
8. and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, [is] to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy reign;
9. thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'
10. and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;