universal dominion, `nothing' that is not put under Him.  Using the same

argument in the epistle to the Corinthians, the apostle safeguards the truth by

`But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is

excepted, which did put all things under Him' (1 Cor. 15:27),

for the Corinthians by reason of their original paganism, their `gods many and

their lords many', may have stood in need of this reminder.  The One glorious

exception, however, but emphasizes the universal nature of the Saviour's

dominion.  Here too is the one occasion where Christ is called the last Adam and

the second Man.

We have elsewhere given our reasons and submitted proofs of the Pauline

authorship of the epistle to the Hebrews, and this peculiar handling of Psalm 8

in both Hebrews and Corinthians bespeaks a common author according to the

accepted rule of higher criticism.

The rule and authority and power that are placed beneath the feet of the

Son are `enemies' as the context reveals:

`For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet' (1 Cor.

the last being death.  This leads on to the great goal of the ages when `God

shall be all in all', and it is anticipated in Ephesians 1:22,23 by the headship

of Christ over the church:

`And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over

all things to the Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Him that

filleth all in all'.

God all in all in the future, Christ all in all in the present -- the

church of the Mystery being the clearest and fullest exhibition and

foreshadowing of that glorious goal.  `Where ... Christ is all, and in all'

(Col. 3:11).

Returning to 1 Corinthians 15, we observe that the word translated `put

down' in verse 24 and `destroyed' in verse 26, is the one Greek word katargeo.

This has a variety of renderings in the New Testament.  Abolish, bring to

nought, make of none effect, make void, destroy, cease and fail, give a fairly

clear idea of its primary meaning which is `to render inoperative'.  Katargeo is

used in Luke 13:7 `why cumbereth it the ground?'  Paul uses it in Romans, six

times, as follows:

Romans 3:3

Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

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Do we then make void the law through faith?

Faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect.

That the body of sin might be destroyed.

If the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law.

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But now we are delivered from the law.

The way in which the apostle uses katargeo in 1 Corinthians 13:8,10,11

where it is translated `fail', `vanish away', `done away' and `put away', must