Being made so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Being made so much better - by His exaltation by the Father (Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 1:13); in contrast to His being "made ... lower than the angels" (Hebrews 2:9). "Better," i:e., superior to. As "being" (Hebrews 1:3) expresses His essential being, so "being made" (Hebrews 7:26) marks what He became in His assumed manhood (Philippians 2:6-9). His humbled form (at which the Jews stumble) is no objection to His divine Messiahship. As the law was given by the ministration of angels and Moses, it was inferior to the Gospel given by the Divine Son, who both is (Hebrews 1:4-14) as God, and has been made, as the exalted Son of man (Hebrews 2:5-18), much better than the angels. The manifestations of God by angels (and even by the Angel of the covenant) at different times in the Old Testament, did not bring man and God into personal union, as the manifestation of God in human flesh does.
By inheritance obtained. He always had the thing itself, sonship; but He 'obtained by inheritance,' according to the Father's promise, the name "Son," whereby He is made known to men and angels. He is "the Son of God" in a sense far above that in which angels are "sons of God" (Job 1:6; Job 38:7). 'The full glory of the special name, "the Son of God," is unattainable by human thought. All appellations are but fragments of its glory-beams united in it as in a central sun' (Revelation 19:12) (Delitzsch).