Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 8:24
No depths; no abyss or deep waters, either mixed with the earth, as they were at first, or separated from it. Brought forth; begotten of my Father's essence.
No depths; no abyss or deep waters, either mixed with the earth, as they were at first, or separated from it. Brought forth; begotten of my Father's essence.
Verse Proverbs 8:24. _WHEN_ THERE WERE _NO DEPTHS_] תהמות _tehomoth_, before the original chaotic mass was formed. See Genesis 1:2. _I WAS BROUGHT FORTH_] חוללתי _cholalti_, "I was produced as by la...
Compare Genesis 1; Job 22; Job 26:1; Job 38: A world of waters, “great deeps” lying in darkness, this was the picture of the remotest time of which man could form any con
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...
BROUGHT FORTH. Same root as Job 15:7; Job 39:1.Psalms 29:9; Psalms 51:5.Isaiah 45:10
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...
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. WHEN (THERE WERE) NO DEPTHS, I WAS BROUGHT FORTH; WHEN (THERE WERE) NO FOUNTAINS ABOUNDING WITH W...
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...
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 BROUGHT FORTH. — i.e., born. The same word is used in Psalms 51:5 (7), and Job 15:7....
בְּ אֵין ־תְּהֹמֹ֥ות חֹולָ֑לְתִּי בְּ אֵ֥ין מ
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...
_Conceived. Having yet manifested none of my works. Since the creation, wisdom only seeks to communicate itself to us. (Calmet)_...
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...
WHEN [THERE WERE] NO DEPTHS, I WAS BROUGHT FORTH,.... Not only in the decree of God, as the head of the elect; foreordained to be the Redeemer of them, and to be the propitiation for their sins; and a...
When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding with water. Ver. 24. _When there were no depths._] In mentioning God's works of creation, some observe here,...
_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...
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when the great oceans had not yet been made; WHEN THERE WERE NO FOUNTAINS ABOUNDING WITH WATER, that is, the hidden springs from which the floods of the...
THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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...
Proverbs 8:24 depths H8415 forth H2342 (H8797) fountains H4599 abounding H3513 (H8737) water H4325 I was -...
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...
_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 4:9; Hebrews 1:5; John 1:14; John 3:16; John 5:20;...
No depths — No abyss or deep waters. Brought forth — Begotten of my father....
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...