Hebrews 1:1-2

Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'God... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son... by whom also he made the worlds.' A textual note: the 'his' is italicized in the KJV — supplied by the translators; the Greek reads simply 'in Son' (en huio), with no article and no possessive, stressing that God's final speech is in the manner of Sonship — God Himself speaking in the person of the Son, not merely through a separate agent. The full revelation of the one God is His Son — the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person (v. 3). The God who spoke piecemeal through prophets has now spoken wholly in the Son, His own self-expression in flesh; to hear the Son is to hear God.

JewishGod's speech through the prophets is the bedrock of Jewish revelation; the claim that God's final word is a divine Son is the point of Christian-Jewish difference.

CatholicChrist the definitive Word and revelation of the Father, through whom the worlds were made — the fullness of revelation (cf. the Catechism).

ProtestantGod's progressive revelation culminating in the Son, the heir and creator — the final, sufficient Word.

AcademicHebrews opens with a high-Christological exordium; the Son as agent of creation and revelation parallels Wisdom and Logos traditions (Prov. 8; John 1).