Discovery BoxHebrews 2:4-8 
Context2:4 while God confirmed their witness 1 with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed 2 according to his will.
2:5 For he did not put the world to come, 3 about which we are speaking, 4 under the control of angels. 2:6 Instead someone testified somewhere:
“What is man that you think of him 5 or the son of man that you care for him?
2:7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.
You crowned him with glory and honor. 6
2:8 You put all things under his control.” 7
For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control, 8
1 tn Grk “God bearing witness together” (the phrase “with them” is implied).
2 tn Grk “and distributions of the Holy Spirit.”
3 sn The phrase the world to come means “the coming inhabited earth,” using the Greek term which describes the world of people and their civilizations.
4 sn See the previous reference to the world in Heb 1:6.
5 tn Grk “remember him.”
6 tc Several witnesses, many of them early and important (א A C D* P Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat co), have at the end of v 7, “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.” Other
7 tn Grk “you subjected all things under his feet.”
sn A quotation from Ps 8:4-6.
8 sn The expression all things under his control occurs three times in 2:8. The latter two occurrences are not exactly identical to the Greek text of Ps 8:6 quoted at the beginning of the verse, but have been adapted by the writer of Hebrews to fit his argument.
