1 Corinthians 15:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then shall the Son also himself be subject, &c.— "When the Father shall have subjected all things to him, so that it shall appear to every eye that he is indeed Lord of all, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him, who subjected all things to him, by a public act in the midst of this most august assembly; giving up as it were his commission to preside as universal Lord in the mediatorial kingdom, as having answered the end for which it was given him, in the completesalvation of all his faithful saints; whom he shall then introduce into a state of the greatest proximity to God, and most intimate converse with him, that God, the Trinity, may be, and that he may appear to be, all in all: that they all may enjoy complete and everlasting happiness, in the full communication of the divine favour to them for ever." It appears evidently, that the kingdom to be given up is the rule of this lower world, which is then to be consumed; and that it may notseem as if a province of Christ's empire was destroyed, his mediatorial government, undertaken in avowed subserviency to the scheme of redemption, Ephesians 1:10 and completed in the glorification of all his faithful people, shall close in the most honourable manner. God will declare the ends of it fully answered; and the whole body of his saints shall be introduced by him into a state of more intimate approach to, and communion with, the tri-une God, than had been known by the spirits of the blessed in their separate state. Upon the whole, we must remember here, that Christ is spoken of in his mediatorial capacity, and that it follows in the nature ofthings, that his mediatorial kingdom must cease, and be given up, when the greatend of his mediatorial government is completely answered; so that no possible objection can be hence derived against the true Divinity of the second Person in the ever-blessed Trinity, who being God before the creation of this world, and, consequently, before he assumed the office of the Redeemer of men, will and must remain God over all, blessed for ever, when the great designs of that office are entirely completed. Accordingly, it is very observable, that, though the apostle had expressly mentioned God even the Father, 1 Corinthians 15:24 as the Person to whom Christ was to give up the kingdom, which he received from him; yet he here speaks of God absolutely, without the personal restriction, as all in all. See Jones's Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity, ch. 1 art. 15, 39, &c. Bp. Brown's Procedure of the Understanding, and the Inferences drawn from 2 Corinthians 13:14.