Quote: Medini
The key here is:

"having BECOME so much better than the angels"

In other words, JC, in Clement's view, has achieved something he didn't already possess, just as in our Oral Torah sources tzaddikim are greater than angels due to their achievements than move them beyond the level of the "ordinary man" per Ps. 8:5.

No evidence of JC's "Deity" here, I'm afraid.


Hello Medini,

For clarification:

With regard to Jesus "having become so much better than the angels" ... it is basic Christian doctrine that the prexistent Christ "who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond servant, and being made in the likeness of men" (Phil. 2)

Thus He became voluntarily "for a little while lower than the angels" (Hebrews 2:9).

The verses in Hebrews 1 then, which Clement echoes, indicate that "when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high" - exalted and returning to His position "above the angels".