Hebrews 2:6-8a → Psalm 8:4-6

Hebrews 2:6-8a quotes Psalm 8:4-6 nearly verbatim from the LXX: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor and placed everything under his feet." In its original context, Psalm 8 celebrates humanity's God-given vocation — dominion over creation as God's image-bearers (Gen 1:26-28). Yet the author of Hebrews observes the critical gap: "at present we do not see everything subject to him" (2:8b). The Adamic mandate remains unfulfilled by fallen humanity. The resolution comes in 2:9: "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death." Christ, as the true Man and last Adam, fulfills the dominion mandate that the first Adam forfeited. The typological escalation is complete: what was given to humanity at creation but lost through sin is recovered and exceeded through Christ's incarnation, suffering, death, and exaltation. Psalm 8's vision of human glory finds its ultimate realization not in humanity generically but in the incarnate Son who represents his people.