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Christ’s Preeminence Over the Angels
The character of the messenger provides the test of the importance and finality of his message. Therefore, we ought to listen to Christ’s Gospel much more than anything the angels delivered (e.g., the Mosaic Law).

To whom much is given, much is required. (Lk 12:35-48)
The OT saints were given the oracles of God and therefore held accountable to them, lest they be punished. NT saints are given the revelation of Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross; therefore, NT saints are held to a greater responsibility since we’ve been given so much more!

The Heb 2:5 Transition
This verse acts as a bridge between the exposition in 1:5-14 (‘Christ superior to angels’) and that in 2:6-13 (‘Christ willingly ceded superiority temporarily to accomplish a specific goal’).

Psa 8:3-4
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psa 8:5-6
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,

Gen 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The Heb 2:5 Transition
This verse acts as a bridge between the exposition in 1:5-14 (‘Christ superior to angels’) and that in 2:6-13 (‘Christ willingly ceded superiority temporarily to accomplish a specific goal’).

Php 2:8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

“partook”
koinoneo – means to share, communicate, contribute, impart; to share in, have a share of, have fellowship with. In context (Heb 2:14) it refers to mystery doctrine of Christ’s Church where God became flesh and blood like man in order to save him. We are saved by being placed in union with Him, His death, and His resurrection (ala Gal 2:20).