36. Hence the Apostle, to make his
explanation of this Mystery complete, after saying that death is the
last enemy to be conquered, adds: But when He saith, All
things are put in subjection except Him, Who did subject all things to
Him, then must He be subjected to Him, that did subject all things to
Him, that God may be all in all 1 Cor. xv. 27, 28..
The first step of the Mystery is that all things are subjected to
Him: then He is subjected to Him, Who subjects all things to
Himself. As we are subjected to the glory of the rule of His
body, so He also, reigning in the glory of His body, is by the same
Mystery in turn subjected to Him, Who subjects all things to
Himself. And we are subjected to the glory of His body, that we
may share that splendour with which He reigns in the body, since we
shall be conformed to His body.