Jesus and Humanity

For he has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about. But someone somewhere has testified:

What is man that you remember him,
or the son of man that you care for him?
You made him lower than the angels
for a short time;
you crowned him with glory and honor[a]
and subjected everything under his feet.[b]

For in subjecting everything to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7 Other mss add and set him over the works of your hands
  2. 2:6–8 Ps 8:4–6 LXX

Jesus is the enthroned human being

God didn’t put the world that is coming (the world we are talking about) under the angels’ control. Instead, someone declared somewhere,

What is humanity that you think about them?
        Or what are the human beings that you care about them?
For a while you made them lower than angels.
        You crowned the human beings with glory and honor.
        You put everything under their control.[a]

When he puts everything under their control, he doesn’t leave anything out of control. But right now, we don’t see everything under their control yet.

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