This is S. v. I 3), in which every created thing in heaven and on earth and under the earth unites to sing- Blessing, etc., to God most High. Could a picture more universal be painted – every knee, in heaven, on earth, under the earth bending, and every tongue proclaiming God’s praise. Such is the force of the original. All things, says LIGHTFOOT, “whatsoever and wheresoever they be. The whole universe, whether animate or inanimate, bends the knee in homage and raises its voice in praise.”
And this divine will S
In what sense this subjugation of all things to Christ is to be understood, is clear from the context, “who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.” Note the significance of this.