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25. δεῖ γὰρ αὐτὸν βασιλεύειν, i. e. Christ as Man and Mediator. For at present we can only discern God through the medium of Christ’s Humanity. Cf. Joh 12:45; Joh 14:9. In the end, we shall be able to ‘see Him as He is,’ 1Jn 3:2. For the present He must reign in His Church, in His sacraments and ordinances, in His ministers, ecclesiastical and secular (Rom 13:4; Rom 13:6), all of them (see last note) the reflex of His power as He sits at God’s Right Hand.
ἄχρις οὗ θῇ. Either (1) the Father, Who put all things under His Son, or (2) Christ, Who puts all things under His own feet. The analogy of Psa 110:1 (cf. Mat 22:44) would cause us to suppose the former; the grammatical construction, as well as the course of the argument, the latter. The enemies are all who ‘oppose and exalt themselves above all that is called God or an object of worship’ (2Th 2:4), and therein especially pride of rank, wealth, intellect, reason, whatever casts off or disowns the universal empire of God. Cf. Eph 1:21-22; Php 2:10; Php 3:21; Heb 1:4. ‘This passage,’ says Cyril of Jerusalem, ‘no more implies a cessation of the reign of Christ than the words “from Adam until Moses” (Rom 5:14) imply a cessation of sin after Moses.’