2:15
The Israelites were delivered from slavery in Egypt. The fear of death holds mankind in slavery. The common human reaction to death is to ignore it, to try not to think about it, but at some point the reality of death stares us in the face and there is no more ignoring it.
2:16
The writer again brings up the superiority of Jesus to angels and its relevance to us. The Son of God did not come in order to help angels. Rather, He came to help the descendants of Abraham. God had made the promises to Abraham, and that included all people’s of the nations (Gen 12:2,3). In these terms at least, mankind is more important than angels. So to worship angels is foolishness, it does not fit with the reality of how things are in God’s economy.
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