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… find your encouragement in Christ!

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,

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.

Ro 5:8
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Psa 22:22
I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

Isa 8:17-18
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

“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).

1Co 4:1
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

“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).