NT Text: Hebrews 2:6-9
OT Source(s):
Source: Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Promise-Fulfillment
Anchor Text: Dan 7:13-14 — The Son of Man Receiving Dominion
Significance: Hebrews quotes Psalm 8:4-6 verbatim — "What is man... or the son of man... You crowned him with glory and honor and placed everything under his feet" — and applies it to Jesus, "now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death" (Heb 2:9). The explicit citation is Psalm 8 (the vault files Heb 2:6-8a → Ps 8:4-6), but the shared title "son of man" and the keynote pairing of glory and dominion link Hebrews' argument to the broader son-of-man trajectory that crests in Daniel 7:13-14, where the Son of Man is "given dominion, glory, and kingship" and "everything... under his feet" becomes everlasting dominion over all nations. This IP documents the Danielic horizon of Hebrews' Psalm 8 use: the "world to come" not subjected to angels but to the Son (Heb 2:5) is the kingdom that Daniel saw given to the Son of Man. The connection is a longitudinal theme reaching fulfillment: the dominion sung of man in Psalm 8 and granted the Son of Man in Daniel 7 is realized in Jesus — though "at present we do not see everything subject to him" (already/not-yet, Heb 2:8). The telos is the crowned Sufferer: the One who attained the son-of-man's glory through tasting death "for everyone," so that His exaltation is the ground of our salvation, and to behold Him crowned is to trust the Brother who was not ashamed to die that we might be brought to glory (Heb 2:10-11).