Psalm 8:6 (WEB)
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Psalm 8:6 (KJV)
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Key words
- כֹּל שַׁתָּה תַחַת־רַגְלָיוkol shattah tachat-raglav · Hebrew
- 'thou hast put all things under his feet' (8:7 in the Hebrew numbering) — to have something under one's feet is to have dominion over it.
- ὑποκάτω τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦhypokatō tōn podōn autou · Greek (LXX)
- 'under his feet' — Revelation 12:1 uses the same phrase of the Woman: 'the moon under her feet' (hypokatō tōn podōn autēs).
Why it matters
To put something under someone's feet is the Bible's image of dominion. Pitre uses this (with Psalm 110:1) to read Revelation 12:1 (p 151): the Woman clothed with the sun, standing on the moon and crowned with the twelve stars of Joseph's dream, is the mother of the Messiah exalted above all Israel, including the patriarchs and matriarchs. The queen mother shares in her Son's dominion.
Fathers and councils · 16
Gregory of Nyssa
“The Creator, honouring man in his having been made in His own image, ‘hath placed’ the brute creation ‘in subjection under his feet;’ as great David relating this favour (of God) exclaimed in the Psalms: “He put all things,” he says, “under his feet,” and he mentions by name the creatures so subjected.” — editor's note: Psalm viii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.18On the Making of Man
“…by human conjectures, except that it assuredly exists), it would have operated also in the case of men, who were “made a little lower than the angels,” to increase mankind to the measure determined by its Maker.” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
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Tertullian
“…and thirst, and tears, and actual birth and real death, and in respect of such a dispensation “made by the Father a little less than the angels.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Gird Thee Thy sword around Thy thigh, most potent in Thy bloom and beauty!” while the Father withal afterwards, after making Him somewhat lower than angels, “crowned Him with glory and honour and subjected all things beneath His feet.”” — editor's note: See Ps. viii. 5, 6 (6, 7 in LXX.); Heb. ii. 6–9.
Read the whole comment“Therefore I detect the nativity of impatience in the devil himself, at that very time when he impatiently bore that the Lord God subjected the universal works which He had made to His own image, that is, to man.” — editor's note: See Ps. viii. 4–6.
Read the whole comment“…so many and so great sins of human temerity, begun by the first of the race, Adam, after the condemnation of man, together with the dowry of the world after his ejection from paradise and subjection to death—when He had hasted back to His own mercy, did from that time onward inaugurate repentance in His own…” — editor's note: Sæculi dote. With which he had been endowed. Comp. Gen. i. 28; Ps. viii. 4–8.
Read the whole comment“Then, again, they read: “Thou madest Him a little less than angels;” and they deny the lower nature of that Christ who declares Himself to be, “not a man, but a worm;” who also had “no form nor comeliness, but His form was…” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6, Sept.
Read the whole comment“…own self, and thenceforth set Him over every dispensation and (administration of) His will, making Him a little lower than the angels, as is written in David.” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…and knowing how to bear our infirmity;” “placed by the Father as a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence;” “made by Him a little lower than the angels;” declaring Himself to be “a worm and not a man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“But as for our Christ, He could do no otherwise than make such a declaration; “made” by the Father “a little lower than the angels,” “a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people;” seeing that it was His will that “with His stripes we should be healed,” that by His…” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“The rod of Thy strength shall the Lord send forth from Sion, and He shall rule along with Thee in the midst of Thine enemies.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1, 2, and viii. 6.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“The Son, therefore, exists not “amongst” but above all things, being, indeed, after the flesh, of the people, of the Jews, but yet at the same time God over all, blessed for ever, having a Name which is above every name, it being said of Him, “Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Or as every creature is to the Son of God, for it is rightly written: “Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet”?” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But that glorifying is added, in which He rose and ascended up into heaven; “With glory,” he says, “and with honour hast Thou crowned Him; and hast set Him over the works of Thine hands” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“What the Psalmist says of the Lord at His rising again, “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands,” [Ps 8:6] this the Lord now says of Himself, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.15.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.18.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.27.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 15.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 28:16–20 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.18.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 15.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.15.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.15.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.27.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.