to indicate animals and stars, which it expressly names ; but the apostle teaches us, that it has a much more extended applica- tion. Good things are made subject to Him in a most joyous condition ; had things in a most sorrowful one : for these latter are destroyed , and are made His footstool. — virera%ev, subjected ) viz. God even the Father ; comp, at 'jKOTuyriv, Eph. i. 22 ; Phil, iii. 21 ; Heb. ii. 8 ; 1 Pet. iii. 22. He will subject all things, in His own time ; He has already subjected them, because He hath said it. — ucro rovg <r6da$ avrou ) not only enemies, but also all other things are put under His feet , Eph. i. 22. This phrase is a synecdoche ; all things are made subject to Him : and those things, which oppose themselves to Him, and do not wish to be subject, are altogether thrust down under His feet, as a footstool. There is a clear distinction between the expressions being put under His feet and being given into His hands. The former how- ever need not be understood in so harsh a sense as the expres- sion might seem to imply : otherwise, there would be no room for the exception of Him , who subjected them. — g/V»j, saitli) viz. the prophet, Heb. ii. 6. — d%\ov, manifest) For the Father is not subject to the Son ; but (3s, ver. 28) the Son is subject to the Father. The apostle with great power and wisdom points out the sum [the main issue] of all things, from the Psalm.
28. 'Tcroray^, shall be subjected) so that they shall remain for ever in subjection. — tots) then finally. Previously, it is always necessary to contend with enemies. — xai9 also) — avrog , He him - self) spontaneously, so that it denotes the infinite excellence of the Son ; and besides, as we often find, it signifies something volun- tary; for the Son subordinates Himself to the Father; the Father glorifies the Son. The name, u God even the Father,” and u the Son,” is more glorious than the title c King.’ This latter name will be absorbed by the former, as it had previously been derived from the former. — 6 vibg, the Son) Christ, according to both natures, even including the divine ; and this we may learn, not so much from the circumstance that Pie is here called the Son ; comp, note on Mark xiii. 32, as that He is expressly considered in relation to the Father. Nor, however, is the Son here spoken of, in so far as the Father and the Son are one, which unity of essence is here presupposed ; but in respect of the dispensation committed to Him, inasmuch as the Father