Psalm 8:6
Douay-Rheims
Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:
Radak
For Thou hast made him but little lower than Elohim: – that is, the angels – in that the spirit of man is of the (same) quality as that of the angels, which is incorporeal just as they are incorporeal; and the inferiority consists in the fact of its (i.e. man's spirit) being (lodged) in a body. And crownest him with glory and honour – by the higher spirit which Thou hast placed in him. And by it
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