Christ Contrasted in Hebrews 1 & 2

 "1st chapter of Hebrews the great apostle treats of Christ in His exaltation before He came to the world. 

In the 2nd chapter of the same book he treats of His humiliation in this world.

 

In the 1st chapter he shows a contrast between Christ and the angels, as also he does in the 2nd; 

----but in the 1st chapter he shows Christ higher than the angels, ----while in the 2nd he shows Him lower than the angels. 

 

Hebrews 1:

4 Being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 

While Hebrews 2 says: 

Hebrews 2:

 9 We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels. 

 

---In the 1st chapter He is presented to us as equal with God; 

---in the 2nd He is presented to us as equal with man."

A.T. Jones