Made a little lower than angels; Jesus crowned through death; worshiped still

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”

Having made [the body] his own, he suffered in it willingly, and through the passion he is crowned with the highest glories, as having abolished death through it and rendered corruption idle — since he himself is incorruption and life. So when Scripture names him Jesus and says he was made lower than the angels, we no longer understand a human piecemeal and separately, but the Only-begotten himself economically yielding preeminence to the holy angels, because in truth he who is lesser than their superiority has become human. The angels’ superiority is that they are outside flesh and stronger than dying — and the Son has come into these things through the voluntary emptying.

Yet the One made a little lower than angels, because of the measure of humanity, being in the superiority of deity, is worshiped by them, and is seated on thrones that they stand around forever glorifying, naming him Lord of their powers.