But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. But one; to wit, the author of the 8th Psalm said, what is man, and so forth that it, man, or mankind, considered in his own frail nature, corrupted by sin, guilty of eternal death, that thou shouldst be mindful of him, restore him to thy favour, and bestow such graces upon him? But the words of the psalm, and of Saint Paul in this place, though they may be understood of every man, yet are to be taken as particularly spoken of Christ as man, or of the human nature of Christ, exalted by the real union with the divine person of the Son of God. Witham.—If the sacred humanity of Jesus Christ spoke in this manner, when visited by the eternal word, with what humility ought a sinner to say: What is man?