Ephesians 1:22 → Psalm 8:6

Crowning his prayer for the church's enlightenment, Paul writes that God "put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church" (Eph 1:22), reproducing the very clause of Psalm 8:6 — "You have placed everything under his feet" (Hebrew kōl šattâ taḥat-raglāyw; LXX panta hypetaxas hypokátō tōn podōn autou). In its original setting Psalm 8 is David's doxological re-reading of the Genesis 1:26-28 mandate: frail ʾenōš / ben-ʾādām, "a little lower than the angels," is crowned with glory and given dominion over the works of God's hands. Paul applies this Adamic dominion to the exalted Christ, fusing Psalm 8:6 with Psalm 110:1 (the right-hand session of Eph 1:20) into the single subjection-formula he deploys again in 1 Corinthians 15:27 — the two royal psalms read as a canonical doublet of cosmic enthronement. The Connection Method is Typology fulfilled as Promise-Fulfillment, not bare analogy: Christ is the Last Adam in whom the human vice-regal vocation is not merely illustrated but accomplished — the five marks hold (Adam-to-Christ correspondence as creation's head; historicity; escalation from forfeited Edenic rule to permanent cosmic dominion; the pointing-forwardness of a mandate Psalm 8 declares yet Hebrews 2:8 confesses is "not yet" seen; and the apostolic retrospective reading). What David sang as wonder and the first Adam lost, the risen Christ now holds in fact. The telos: this universal subjection is given "to the church" — Christ exercises Psalm 8's dominion not over his people but on their behalf, as the head whose body shares his reign. To behold the One under whose feet all things are placed is to find the cosmic King supremely desirable, for his very headship is gift: the Last Adam reigns so that those united to him may, with unveiled faces, be remade into the glory he wears.