Hebrews 2:6

Heb. 2:6. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou are mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Blank Bible 2:6 vid. note on Psa. 8:6 etc. This note is as follows:

"5.6.7.8.9. for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. The Psalmist is here admiring and praising the wonderful goodness and condescension of God to men in his ? the human nature to such dignity and honour. Now the advancement of the human nature or crowning of it with glory and honour is told there was that that was done at God's first work when God first created man whereby God gave him dominion over the lower world and the other creatures in it herein making man but a little lower than the angels those thrones dominions principalities and powers above. And as man was made in the image of God, so hereby he had given him an image of God's authority and dominion. He was placed here as God's *(?)p.401 vicegerent?, and hereby there was given a specimen and shadow of the second and greatest exaltation which God designed the human nature for, which design of God probably had been declared in heaven among the angels before now. They now saw a specimen of it in man's dominion over the creatures.

Secondly the second exaltation or crowning with glory and honour of which this was but a shadow is that which is performed in God's second work in actual uniting the human nature to the divine whereby the human nature was exalted not only to an honour and dominion that was an image of God's but actually to God's honour and dominion, whereby he had indeed in the most extensive sense dominion over all the works of God's hands and had all things put under his feet. That person in the human nature that is the head and representative of the rest is thus exalted and the rest that are his members & are united to him are partakers with him in this exaltation.

Now the Holy Ghost in this place has respect to both these exaltations of the human nature as it is exceeding common for the Holy Ghost to speak of the shadow and the thing shadowed forth of the lesser and the greater of the same kind both under one. He speaks most directly and expressly of the first but he has an ultimate and perhaps a principal respect to the latter. I believe he has a principal respect to the latter in the 2d verse…. and that the enemy and avenger there spoken of is the devil who can't bear to see the human nature so exalted.

The words in the 6th verse: Thou madest him a little lower than the angels are spoken in different senses as they relate to man in his first creation and to the man Christ Jesus but yet in both as a great work of bounty (?) and condescension to the human nature or mankind.

Hence we may understand why the apostle applies this place as he does Hebrews 2:6. The first words in the 5th verse are spoken with a more special reference to man's first exaltation & best agrees with that where Christ in the 24[th chapter] of Matthew prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world under one. There are some expressions do much best [better] agree with the one as others with the other. See Miscel[lany] No. 702 page 91 (?) in quarto p. 40 about the middle of the page.

Heb. 2:7