like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
The apostle, having proved the pre-eminence of the gospel above the law from the pre-eminence of the Lord Jesus Christ above the prophets, now proceeds to show that he is much superior not only to the prophets, but to the angels themselves.
Commenting on Hebrews 1:4-14
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up,.... In order to lay them aside, and make no use of them in the manner they now are; just as clothes, when they are grown old, or out of fashion, are folded up, and laid aside from use at present, or are put into another form.
Verse 12. And as vesture, A garment;--literally something thrown around--περιβολαιον,--and denoting properly the outer garment, the cloak or mantle. . Shalt thou fold them up. That is, the heavens. They are represented in the Scriptures as an expanse, or something spread out, (Heb. in ;) and a curtain, or tent, (,) and as a scroll that might be spread out or rolled up like a book or volume, .