NT Text: Hebrews 2:6-9 — "You crowned him with glory and honor and placed everything under his feet… But we see Jesus… now crowned with glory and honor"
OT Source(s):
Source: 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)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology + Promise-Fulfillment
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
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 — promise made to Adam, realized in Christ, not yet seen in us.