And hath put all things under his feet,.... These words are taken out of Ps 8:6.See Gill on "1Co 15:27".And gave him to be the head over all things to the church; the Vulgate Latin version reads, "and gave him to be the head over every church", or "all the church"; the Ethiopic version, "the whole church"; which intends not barely professors of religion, or a family of faithful persons, or a particular congregation, in which sense the word is sometimes used; but the whole body of God's elect, the church, which is built on Christ the rock, for which he gave himself, and which is the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven: Christ is an head to this church; in what sense he is so, See Gill on "1Co 11:3".
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Ephesians 1:22
Ephesians 1:22
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