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But God has been kind to all of us. Each of us has received a special gift, just as Christ has decided to give us. This is what it says about him:

‘When he went up to the highest place,
he led many prisoners with him.
Then he gave gifts to his people.’[a]

It says: ‘He went up.’ That must mean that Christ had also come down. He came down to a lower place, the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:8 This is like Psalms 68:18. Or it may have been a song that the Christians sang. Christ takes things from his enemies and he gives them to his own people.