Being made so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. And of the angels, he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. (GCB/GCBD 1895, page 219.4 – A. T. Jones)
W)hat is his name? What does the Father call him? God. “Thy throne, O God.” Then that is His name. How did He get it? Fourth verse: “As He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than the angels.” You and I have a name that we have by inheritance. We may have four or five names, but we have only one name that we got by inheritance. And that is our Father’s name. And that name we have just as soon as we exist and just because we exist. By the very fact of our existence we have that name; it belongs to us by nature. The Lord Jesus “hath by inheritance” obtained this name of “God.” Then that name belongs to Him just because He exists. It belongs to Him by nature. What nature is His, then? Precisely the nature of God. And God is His name, because that is what He is. He was not something else and then named that to make Him that, but He was that and was called God because He is God. (GCB/GCBD 1895, page 219.5- A. T. Jones)
Therefore it is further written of Him that He was “made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” (ARSH December 11, 1900, page 792.11 – A. T. Jones))
This more excellent name is the name “God,” which, in the eighth verse, is given by the Father to the Son. “Unto the Son He [God] saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.” (ARSH December 11, 1900, page 792.12- A. T. Jones))
Thus, He is so much better than the angels as God is better than the angels. And it is because of this that He has that more excellent name; the name expressing only what He is, in His very nature. (ARSH December 11, 1900, page 792.13-A. T. Jones)
And this name “He hath by inheritance.” It is not a name that was bestowed, but a name that is inherited. (ARSH December 11, 1900, page 792.14)
Now, it lies, in the nature of things, as an everlasting truth, that the only name any person can possibly inherit is his father’s name. This name, then, of Christ’s, which is more excellent than that of the angels, is the name of His Father; and His Father’s name is God. The Son’s name, therefore, which He has by inheritance, is God. And this name, which is more excellent than that of the angels, is His because He is “so much better than the angels.” That name being God, he is so much better than the angels as God is better than the angels. ARSH December 11, 1900, page 792.15- A. T. Jones))
Next, His position and nature, as better than that of the angels, is dwelt upon: “For unto which of the angels saith He [the Father] at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to me a Son?” This holds the thought of the more excellent name spoken of in the previous verse. For He, being the Son of God,—God being His Father,—thus hath “by inheritance” the name of His Father, which is God; and which is so much more excellent than the name of the angels, as God is better than they. ARSH December 11, 1900, page 792.16 A. T. Jones)
However, it would be in no wise different so far as this particular fact is concerned, if Christ had spoken this of himself, and had commissioned to preach in his name, for his original name is precisely the same as the Father’s. He and the Father are one. And “he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than” any of the angels. Hebrews 1:4. – (ARSH October 1, 1895, page 632.2 -A. T. Jones)
The only name that any person can inherit is his father’s name. A person may have several names; but there is only one that he can inherit, and that is his father’s; all other names that he may have must be given to him. Now Christ had “by inheritance” a name. It could not possibly be any other than his Father’s name.( ARSH October 1, 1895, page 632.3 – A. T. Jones)
Having this name by inheritance, he has it by nature. He has it by the very fact of his existence. As certainly as he exists, this name—the name of the Father—belongs to him. And the Father’s name being his by nature, this name as certainly expresses his nature as it expresses the name of the Father. “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin”—this is the Father’s name and nature; and this is the name and nature of the Son, because he has by inheritance—by nature—his Father’s name. (ARSH October 1, 1895, page 632.4 – A. T. Jones)
