What Does 1 Corinthians 15:28 Mean?
And when all things are set under him, then the Son himself will be set under the one who set all things under him, so that God may be all in all.
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King James wording
King James Version
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.THE KEY
The same Greek verb stands behind “subdued,” “subject,” and “put ... under,” carrying one repeated act of subordination toward the end that God may be all in all.
THE MEANING
The verse gives the reader a horizon in which all things are brought under the Son, and the Son himself is subject to the one who places all things under him. The purpose is that God may be all in all.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the assumption that the Son stands above everything without himself being subject to anyone: it places him under the one who placed all things under him.
THE ROOT
ὑποταγῇ
hypotagē
GROWS FROM
τάσσω
tassō
Arrange, set in order, appoint; in the compound ὑποτάσσω, place under or subject.
“set under” in this verse is hypotagē. Greek repeats forms of ὑποτάσσω behind “subdued,” “subject,” and “put ... under,” while English gives the repeated action different expressions. The same τάσσω family appears earlier in the chapter as τάγμα, “order,” connecting the final subjection with the chapter’s language of appointed order.
ALSO GROWS
hypotassō: Place under; subject.
ὑποτάσσω
This compound verb is repeated across the verse, placing all things under the Son and the Son under the one who placed all things beneath him.
tagma: An appointed order or rank.
τάγμα
This word appears in verse 23 as “order,” linking the chapter’s appointed sequence to the subordination described at its close.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures authority as an order in which all things are placed under the appointed ruler.
You make him rule over the works of your hands; you place all things under his feet.And he set all things under his feet, and gave him as head over all things to the assembly.You have set all things under his feet. For in that he set all things under him, he left nothing unset under him. But now we do not yet perceive all things set under him.THE THREAD
But each in his own rank, the Anointed One as first portion, then those of the Anointed One at his arrival.“Order” translates τάγμα, from the same τάσσω family as the repeated subjection verb in verse 28. Read together, the chapter connects resurrection and subjection through the language of appointed placement.
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