On a clear night, far from city lights, you can see roughly 4,500 stars—and feel the same vertigo a psalmist felt three thousand years ago. "What is man, that you are mindful of him?" The writer of Hebrews picks up Psalm 8's celebration of humanity's God-given dominion and finds a devastating gap: "You put everything in subjection under his feet." But "at present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him." The crown has slipped. The dominion is lost. Disease dominates, death has the final word, and the creation meant to be under human feet is burying human bodies. Then the pivot—two words that change everything. "But we see." We see Jesus, made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death. Not despite it. The crown came through the cross. And he tasted death huper pantos—for everyone.

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