I was set up from everlasting, ordained, inaugurated, established, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, from the primordial times of the earth, the eternity of the personal Word being asserted again and again.
Verse Proverbs 8:23. _I WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING_] נסכתי _nissachti_, "I was diffused or poured out," from נסך _nasach_, "to diffuse, pour abroad, as a spirit or disposition," Isaiah 29:10. See _P...
I WAS SET UP - Rather, “I was anointed” (compare Psalms 2:6 margin: 2 Chronicles 28:15). The image is that of Wisdom anointed, as at her birth, with “the oil of gladness.” OR EVER THE EARTH WAS - lite...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...
PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...
SET UP. founded. Hebrew. _nasak,_ as in Psalms 2:6, "set". FROM EVERLASTINGS. from the outset of the ages. Compare Hebrews 11:3....
_set up_ Gesenius renders _anointed_here and in Psalms 2:6, where the same word occurs. But "the verb means -to pour out," and then -to pour metals in a state of fusion into a mould": hence it passes...
I WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING— According to the Hebrew, _I have been anointed from all eternity;_ which is particularly applicable to Jesus Christ, the anointed of the Father....
TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36 22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. 23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24. When there...
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. I WAS SET UP - literally, 'anointed;' i:e., set apart, in the purposes of God, to be Lord and King of the world. The same H...
8:23 up (m-4) Lit. 'anointed.' as Psalms 2:6 ....
OR] i.e. ere, before....
WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
Wisdom is like God’s word. God’s word existed in the beginning. And God’s word created the world, when God the Father gave his command. (John 1:1) The ‘word’ is another name for Jesus. Jesus always e...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
I WAS SET UP. — An unusual word; also applied to our Lord in Psalms 2:6 when “set” as King on Zion....
מֵ֭ עֹולָם נִסַּ֥כְתִּי מֵ רֹ֗אשׁ מִ קַּדְמֵי
CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
FINDING WISDOM, FINDING LIFE Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by _chance_. It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression of th...
The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
(l) I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. (l) He declares the eternity of the Son of God, who was before all time, and ever present with the father....
_Up. Hebrew, "anointed." Septuagint, "he founded." Christ was appointed to be the foundation, on which we must be built. (St. Athanasius iii. Orat.)_...
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; wh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
I WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING,.... I, a person, and not a quality; a person, and not a nature; the person of Christ as the Son of God, and not the human nature of Christ, which then did not exist; thi...
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Ver. 23. _I was set up._] _Coronata sum; _ I was crowned; so some render it. _Inuncta fui,_ I was anointed - so others - for...
_The Lord possessed me_ As his eternal Wisdom and Word, which was in the beginning with _him, John 1:1_, and _in him, John 14:10_, and was afterward _made flesh_, and dwelt among men, as the only bego...
To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
22-31 The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God w...
SET UP, Heb. _anointed_; ordained or constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, first to create, and then to uphold, and govern, and judge, and afterwards to redeem...
Proverbs 8:23 established H5258 (H8738) everlasting H5769 beginning H7218 ever H6924 earth H776...
5) WISDOM WAS WITH GOD IN CREATION AND REJOICES IN THE ONGOING OF HIS CREATION (PROVERBS 8:22). Lest we have any doubt about what wisdom Solomon is speaking about he now makes it very clear (as he has...
Proverbs 8:23 Wisdom meant more to the Jews than to us, who have lost the sense of man's unity by subdividing his faculties. It embraced to the Jew the mental and material range of the spiritual life:...
Proverbs 8:22 This is a description of the original solitude of God by a witness, His only-begotten and well-beloved Son. I. This solitude was serene and happy. Even among men solitude is not always...
CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...
Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
_I was set up from everlasting._ CHRIST SET UP FROM EVERLASTING Doctrine: That as Christ is the everlasting God, so, from all eternity, He was foreordained and set up for the great service of man’s...
_The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way._ WISDOM THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--an id...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:22 THE FIRST OF HIS ACTS OF OLD (v. Proverbs 8:22). Wisdom was present with God when he created the world. Wisdom
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:22. JEHOVAH POSSESSED ME. The signification of this verb has been the subject of much discussion; ancient expositors, believing Wisdom here to be the eternal Son of God, de...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
1 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 1:11; Genesis 1:26;...
Set up — Heb. anointed, constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, to create, to uphold and govern and judge, to redeem and save the world. From the beginning — Befo...
Who is referred to as “wisdom” in these verses? PROBLEM: Many commentators have claimed that the person identified as wisdom in Proverbs 8:22-31 is Jesus, because 1 Corinthians 1:30 states that Jesus...