5. God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come — the world of which we speak.
6. Instead, as it is said somewhere in the Scriptures:“What are human beings, O God, that you should think of them;mere human beings, that you should care for them?
7. You made them for a little while lower than the angels;you crowned them with glory and honour,
8. and made them rulers over all things.”It says that God made them “rulers over all things”; this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see human beings ruling over all things now.
9. But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with glory and honour because of the death he suffered.