“Thou madest him a little lower then the Angels, thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him ouer the workes of thy hands.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
2:7 Thou hast made him - Adam. A little lower than the angels - The Hebrew is, a little lower than (that is, next to) God. Such was man as he came out of the hands of his Creator: it seems, the highest of all created beings. But these words are also in a farther sense, as the apostle here shows, applicable to the Son of God. It should be remembered that the apostles constantly cited the Septuagint translation, very frequently without any variation. It was not their business, in writing to the Jews, who at that time had it in high esteem, to amend or alter this, which would of consequence have occasioned disputes without end.
Heb 2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels. Man, for the time, was made lower than the angels (Ps 8:4). Thou didst crown him with glory and honour. Yet he was crowned, as the Psalmist tells us, with glory and honor (Ps 8:5), and didst set him over the works of thy hands. And given dominion (Ps 8:6).