Psalms 8 Scofield
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8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
“For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels”
In Psalms 2. Christ was presented as Jehovah's Son and King, rejected and crucified but yet to reign in Zion. In Psalms 8, while His deity is fully recognized (Ps 8:1), Psalms 110 with Matt 22:41–46 He is seen as Son of man Ps 8:4–6 who, "made for a little while lower than the angels, " is to have dominion over the redeemed creation Heb 2:6–11. The authority here is racial and Adamic, rather than purely divine as in Psalms 2, or Davidic as in Psalms 89. That which the first man lost, the second man and "last Adam" more than regained. Heb 2:6–11 in connection with Psalms 8, and Rom 8:17–21 show that the "many sons" whom He is bringing to glory, are joint heirs with Him in both the royal right of Psalms 2. and the human right of Hebrews 2. See Psalms 16, next in order of the Messianic Psalms.
“angel”
(See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
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8:1 <To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.> O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
1 Gittith= "winepress," and so, of the harvest, in the sense of judgment Isa 63:3; Rev 19:15; Ps 7:1, to which the title of Psalms 8. properly belongs, is a Psalm of judgment.