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Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels (Ps. viii, 6). This the Apostle expounds as spoken of Christ, since in the nature of his divinity no one doubts that he is greater than the angels. Of him the Apostle says, writing to Titus, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live prudently and justly and piously in this world, looking for that blessed hope and the coming of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us (Titus ii, 12). Of whom in another place our Scripture says: 'He who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty' (Rev. xi, 17). If Almighty, how is he lesser?
For that Almighty one also says, after his resurrection, according to Matthew: 'All power is given to me in heaven and in earth' (Matt. xxviii, 18). But if anyone thinks the receiver lesser than the giver, let him read that it is also said of Christ through the Apostle: 'When he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father' (1 Cor. xv, 24); since thus the Father cannot be without the kingdom which the Son is said to be about to deliver up to him, just as neither can the Son be without all the power which he says is given to him in heaven and in earth. Of whom St. Paul to the Colossians, forbidding that we believe according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of this world, and not according to Christ: 'For,' he says, 'in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily' (Col. ii, 9).