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Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

St. Paul continues,

The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

For he has put all things under his feet.

When he says all things are put under him,

it is evident that he who put all things under him is accepted.

Now when all things are made subject to him,

then the son himself will also be subject to him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

And so St. Paul is here quoting from Psalm 8 and is talking about how Psalm 8 prophetically talked about how he, God, would place all things under the feet of him, the Messiah.

And so St. Paul is saying, this has been fulfilled and is being fulfilled and will be fulfilled,

that Christ has won this victory.

God is already, Christ is already ruling, God has already placed them

under his feet. And the time will come when they will be, they will be utterly destroyed. And of course,

he's saying, obviously, God the Father is not going to be under Christ's feet, because there is

no opposition between God the Father and God the Son. And so God the Son, Christ in his incarnation,

has always been obedient to His Father. And so when all things are made subject to Christ,

then God will be all in all. And so this is setting up St. Paul's view. And this is important to understand because this is one of the

overarching themes in St. Paul's epistles. It's sometimes described in terms of, again, his

eschatology, his understanding of the last things, of the final things. Sometimes it's a tension or just a distinction between the already and

the not yet, the fulfilled and the remaining, right, that St. Paul sees Christ himself as having

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