For he hath put all things under his feet Here the meaning clearly is (see Psalms 8:6, and the rest of this verse) that the Father hath put all things under the feet of the Son. "All things are put under His feet," says Cyril of Alexandria, "because He made all things." St John 1:3; John 1:10; Ephesians 3:9; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:1.

it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him This passage ought to be compared with the analogous one in Hebrews 2:7-9. Each of these supplies what is wanting in the other. In the one we have the Son, the manifestation of the Father's glory and love, bringing everything in this lower world, which the Father has put under Him, into the most complete subjection to, and the most entire union with, His Heavenly Father. In the other we see the Eternal Father, while permitting, for His own wise purposes, the humiliation and suffering of Christ, doing so in order that all things should finally be put in subjection to -His Beloved Son, in Whom He was well pleased."

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