5. A little lower than the angels. A little
lower in nature, since they are immortal, and only a little, because time is
short; and when that is over, saints are no lower than the angels. The margin
reads “a little
while inferior to.” Thoucrownest him. The dominion that God has bestowed on man is a great gloryand honor to him; for all dominion is honor, and the highest is that which
wears the crown. A full list is given of the subjugated creatures, to show that
all the dominion lost by sin is restored in Christ Jesus. Let none of us permit
the possession of any earthly creature to be a snare to us, but let us remember
that we are to reign over them, and not to allow them to reign over us.
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