5–8. These verses may set forth man’s
position among the creatures before he fell; but as they are, by the apostle
Paul, appropriated to man as represented by the Lord Jesus, it is best to give
most weight to that meaning. In order of dignity, man stood next to the angels,
and a little lower than they; in the Lord Jesus this was accomplished, for he
was made a little lower than the angels by the suffering of death. Man in Eden
had the full command of all creatures, and they came before him to receive
their names as an act of homage to him as the vice-gerent of God to them. Jesus
in his glory is now Lord not only of all living but of all created things, and,
with the exception of him who put all things under him, Jesus is Lord of all,
and his elect, in him, are raised to a dominion wider than that of the first
Adam, as shall be more clearly seen at his coming. Well might the psalmist
wonder at the singular exaltation of man in the scale of being, when he marked
his utter nothingness in comparison with the starry universe.
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