Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Hebrews 2:5

"For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak." — Hebrews 2:5 (ASV)

Having looked at “such a great salvation” that Christ won for his own, the author goes on to the further point that the subjection of the world to the human race spoken of in Ps 8 is to be seen in Christ, not in humanity at large. “Not to angels” implies that the subjection was made to someone other than the angels. “The world” (GK 3876) is a term that normally denotes the inhabited earth (a term used by both Greeks and Romans for the spheres of their earthly influence). It is unusual to have it employed of the Messianic Age.