God did not. The TEV is clearer here. Christ created the earth (see Hebrews 1:10), and he did not create it for angels, but for mankind, as the next verse shows. Remember: Christ in his incarnation is the representative man, the Second Adam. [Johnson sees in this the difference between the Jewish Age (which they called the present world) and the Christian Age (which the Jews called the world to come). See also Matthew 19:28 and note.]

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