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