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You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
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Humanity's Role, Christ's Rule
Commentators explain this verse has a dual meaning. It first describes the original honor God gave humanity to have dominion over creation (Genesis 1:26). However, the New Testament (Hebrews 2, 1 Corinthians 15) reveals that this verse finds its ultimate and perfect fulfillment in Jesus Christ, who restores what was lost in the Fall and reigns supreme over all things.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You made him to have dominion - You caused him to have, or gave him this dominion. It does not mean that God made or created him fo…
19th Century
Anglican
The poet continues, in a rapturous strain, to complete the cycle of animated nature, and to describe man’s kingship over all other created beings. …
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
You have set him over. David now comes to the second point, which I have just now spoken of: namely, that from the dominion over all thing…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands, &c.] All power in heaven and in earth being given to him…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the psalmist offered a psalm in which David prayed because of his persecution; here, he offers a psalm of thanksgiving.
He prese…
