But somewhere it is testified in these words: “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.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."
You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
Significance
Hebrews 2 reaches the Adamic dominion of Genesis 1:28 through Psalm 8, the OT's clearest internal meditation on the creation mandate. Quoting Ps 8:4-6 (LXX) — "crowned him with glory and honor… placed everything under his feet" — the author then applies the commission Christologically with an explicit already/not-yet qualification: "Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. But we see Jesus… now crowned with glory and honor." The dominion clause of Gen 1:28 (re-articulated by David as humanity's royal-priestly crowning) is not yet visibly fulfilled in fallen humanity, but it is fulfilled — inaugurated and guaranteed — in the exalted Last Adam. Christ holds the Adamic dominion in already-not-yet form, awaiting consummation, and his tasting death "for everyone" is the means by which the many sons are brought to the glory Adam forfeited. Per the ATN §4 this is the direct quotation of Ps 8 (Gen 1:28 mediated through it) functioning as typological fulfillment with the eschatological reservation — commission given to Adam, realized in Christ, not yet seen in us.
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Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Köstenberger & O'Brien, Salvation to the Ends of the Earth)
