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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

8:4 What is man. The psalmist exhibits a very modern concept of the infinite magnitude of the heavens in comparison to man.


8:4 the son of man. This is the first reference in the Bible of the phrase “son of man” (or “son of Adam”), a term used some eighty times of Himself by the Lord Jesus.


8:5 lower than the angels. Man is not, as evolutionists think, “a little higher than the apes,” but rather “a little lower than the angels.”


8:6 have dominion. This is a confirmation that God’s original “dominion mandate” (Genesis 1:26-28) is still in effect. This verse is also cited in Hebrews 2:5-8, and there is applied specifically to Christ.


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