(Now that he ascended, what is it, but that he also descended first to the lower parts of the earth?

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels, thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

But we see Jesus crowned with glory and honour, for the suffering of death, who was made a little lower than the angels, that by the grace of God he might taste death for every man.