Bible Dictionary: Man: Little Lower than the Angels

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Job 4:18-21
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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Psalm 8:5
For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.
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Hebrews 2:7,8
You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:
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Christ Took not on Him an Angelic Nature, but the Human it was Men ...
... Him a little lower than the angels" [7142] how will it appear that He put on the
nature of angels if He was made lower than the angels, having become man, with ...
/.../tertullian/ on the flesh of christ/chapter xiv christ took not on.htm

A Glorious vision.
... Then we find here His presence as Man in Glory. "But we see Jesus, who was made
a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the lord of glory/a glorious vision.htm

Christ's Saying, "The Father is Greater than I," is Explained in ...
... What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, but that Thou visitest
him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels." [1989] And in ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter viii christs saying the.htm

The True Excellence of Man.
... it in which man differs from beasts, and the angels of God, on the other hand, are
wiser than he? "Thou madest him a little lower than the angels." [2682] For ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iii the true excellence of.htm

The Son and the Angels.
... Or the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the
angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honour, And didst set him over the ...
/.../the expositors bible the epistle to the hebrews/chapter ii the son and.htm

Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, one Lowly ...
... of stumbling and a rock of offence;" [3186] "made by Him a little lower than the
angels;" [3187] declaring Himself to be "a worm and not a man, a reproach of ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter vii prophecy sets forth two.htm

Whether God Always Loves Better Things the More
... 2. Again, an angel is better than a man, according to Ps.8:5: "Thou hast made him
a little lower than the angels." Yet God loved a man more than an angel ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article four whether god always.htm

Reflections on his Fiftieth Birthday. What a Wonderful Being is ...
... The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth proclaims the dominion of man.
He was made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with majesty. ...
/.../chapter xix reflections on his.htm

Whether it is Fitting that Christ Should be a Priest?
... so that the priest himself, as being between God and man, is called ... But, in regard
to His passibility, He "was made a little lower than the angels," as the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is fitting that 3.htm

What we must Answer to those who Raise the Question --"If ...
... also in the case of men, who were "made a little lower than the angels [1663] ,"
to ... inquiry as to the manner of the generation of souls, had man not needed ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xvii what we must answer.htm