Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 2:8

8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet . For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him ; But now we see not yet all things put under him .

The impartial righteous Iehovah the Father, is the Relation in the Trinity, spoken of in the Relative Thou, throughout these verses. He is God's King; for his personal worth and Excellencies preferred before Principalities and Powers, and every Name; before all Persons, Things, and Places, the World to come as well as this; all Angels as well as Men, all Creatures wherever in Heaven, Earth, Sea, or Hell, are under his Soveraign Dominion, they all lie at his Feet, to dispose of as he pleaseth; they are all set in Subjection to him by the Ordination of his Father; see Psal. 8.3, 7, 8. 1 Cor. 15.24, to 29. Ephes. 1.20, 21, 22. Philip. 2.9, 10. Col. 2.10. According to the Eastern Custom, as Subjects lie prostrate at the Feet of their Soveraign; so do all Creatures to him who is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, as Exod. 11.8. See the Margent Isa. 49.23. they how down and worship him as their own Lord; but as being under his Feet, signifies the utmost Subjection of them to him, and his Triumph over them, it especially refers to his Enemies, Sins, Devils, Sinners, and Death, as Ioshua a Type of him did, Iosh. 10.23, 24. shewing thereby what God would do with all the rest. Allusive to this is Isa. 51.23. especially to all the Enemies of his Son, as Psalm 110.1. and 1 Cor. 15.25, 26. As to his Church, it is his Body, and tho distant from him, as Creatures, and so worshipping and honouring of him as elect Angels, yet being his Queen too, she loves and honoureth him as a Wife, Psalm 45.9, 11. Ephes. 1.22, 23. and 5.23, 24. she hath her Subjection as well as her Dignity; she is not a Peer to him before Marriage: but as Eastern Emperors marry Slaves born or captivated, because they acknowledge no King greater than they, or equal to them; so Christ takes Sinners and makes them his Body, his Church, his Queen, who tho for Condition are under his Feet, yet he so dearly loves them, that he takes them thence, and sets them at his Right Hand.

If nothing is left unsubjected, then Angels and the World to come are subjected to him; and it is evident they are so, by their ministring to him at his Conception, Birth, Danger from Herod, Temptations by the Devil, at his Entrance on his Ministry, at his Passion, at his Resurrection, Ascension, and since his Session on his Throne, obeying his Commands, and performing his Errands, Psal. 8.8.

It is evident to our Sense and Experience, that tho he hath obtained this Soveraign Dominion over all on his Ascension, yet he hath not exerted his Power in utterly subjecting and triumphing over his Enemies at present, nor in reducing all his own People to Subjection to him, yet this shall be gradually done in every Age compleatly, when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, to punish his Enemies with everlasting Destruction, 1 Cor. 15.24, 26. 2 Thes. 1.7, 8, 9, 10. Revel. 20.11, 15.

Marginal references: Phil. 2.7, 8.