Ephesians 1:22 22 καὶ πάντα ὑπέταξεν ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸν ἔδωκεν κεφαλὴν ὑπὲρ πάντα τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ,
23 ἥτις ἐστὶν τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ, τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ τὰ πάντα ἐν πᾶσιν πληρουμένου.
Have been mulling this scripture over for a couple years and the usual translations don't seem to make a lot of sense.
I'm thinking that αὐτὸν refers to πόδας not to αὐτοῦ.
So I would translate "literally as follows:
And all things he put under the feet of him, and (same, these, them) made head over all things…the church which is the body of him, the fullness of him, who all things in all fills.
Seems to fit the context better since the feet of him, given the analogy of, "the church which is the body of him," clearly refers to the Church. The sense of the verse is already that he has put all things under the church, i.e. the feet of him, it is therefore quite consistent with the sense of the verse to say that he has made them, the feet head over all things.
It seems almost a play on words, a sort of humorous expression, i.e. He has put all things under his feet, and made the feet the head over all things.
He then finishes by emphasizing that he is speaking of the church which is his body.
Would it be possible to translate αὐτὸν as, "same," "these," "them" or something similar?
Thanks
