Psalm 8:6 — you made him a little lower than angels; crowned with glory and honor
“You made him a little lower than angels; with glory and honor you crowned him” (Psalm 8:6).
Of Eusebius. How the God of all crowned man with glory and honor, you will understand, because only of man it is written that God said: “Let us make man according to our image and according to likeness”; and God made the man; according to the image of God he made him (Genesis 1:26-27).
And he deemed him worthy of his own appearances, and to one clothed in flesh he imparted divine converse, then through angels, then also himself appearing through himself to the saints and giving oracles; and besides these he showed him a partaker of the Holy Spirit and of heavenly power, so as to foretell the future, and to heal all kinds of diseases, and already even to raise the dead; such things prophets and apostles are recorded to have done.
And if to all that was said you add the incarnate economy of the Only-begotten Son of God, you will see how it is said: “With glory and honor you crowned him,” namely, that you crowned man.
Greek
8.6 ̓Ηλάττωσας αὐτὸν βραχύ τι παρ' ἀγ γέλους, δόξῃ καὶ τιμῇ ἐστεφάνωσας αὐτόν. Εὐσεβίου. Πῶς δόξῃ καὶ τιμῇ τὸν α ν θρωπον ἐστεφάνωσεν ὁ τῶν ο λων Θεός, νοήσεις, ο τι ἐπὶ μόνου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἀνα γέγραπται εἰρηκὼς ὁ Θεός· Ποιήσωμεν α ν θρωπον κατ' εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ' ὁ μοίωσιν· καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν α νθρωπον, κατ' εἰκόνα Θεοῦ ἐποίησεν αὐτόν. Καὶ ἐπι φανειῶν κατηξίωσεν ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ σάρκα πε ριβεβλημένῳ ὁμιλίας θείας μετέδωκεν, τότε μὲν δι' ἀγγέλων, τότε δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς δι' ἑαυ τοῦ τοῖς ἁγίοις ὀφθεὶς καὶ χρηματίσας· καὶ ε τι πρὸς τούτοις θείου Πνεύματος καὶ δυ νάμεως οὐρανίου μέτοχον αὐτὸν ἀνέδειξεν, ὡς τὰ μέλλοντα προαγορεύειν, καὶ νόσους παντοίας θεραπεύειν, η δη δὲ καὶ νεκροὺς ἐγείρειν· ὁποῖα προφῆται καὶ ἀπόστολοι πε ποιηκέναι ἱστοροῦνται· εἰ δὲ α πασιν τοῖς λεχθεῖσιν προσθείης τοῦ Μονογενοῦς Υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν ε νσαρκον οἰκονομίαν, ο ψει πῶς ει ρηται· ∆όξῃ καὶ τιμῇ ἐστεφάνωσας αὐτὸν, δηλαδὴ ο τι τὸν α νθρωπον.
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New English from locked PG 12 / Khazarzar Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3. Earlier lemma-led SERIES-CLOSEOUT English was discarded.
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