For thou hast made him—You have made man as such; that is, he was such in the original design of his creation, in the rank given hi…

The Hebrew poet dwells on neither of these aspects, but at once passes on to the essential greatness of man and his superiority in creation, by rea…

Man is God's viceroy. He reigns over God's works in God's name. Let him not set up to be a king, and try to usurp the honour of his great Lord, the…

Thou hast made him little lower. The Hebrew copulative ki, I have no doubt, should be translated as the causal particle for,<…

For you have made him a little lower than the angels
Than Elohim, "than God", as this word usually signifies: and co…

We are to consider the heavens, so that man may in this way be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so lowly a creature, th…

Previously, the psalmist offered a psalm in which David prayed because of his persecution; here, he offers a psalm of thanksgiving.