Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 8:22
Possessed me — As his son by eternal generation, before the beginning. Of old — His works of creation.
Possessed me — As his son by eternal generation, before the beginning. Of old — His works of creation.
Verse Proverbs 8:22. _THE LORD POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY_] Wisdom is not _acquired_ by the Divine Being; _man_, and even _angels,_ _learn it_ by _slow_ and _progressive_ degrees; but i...
A verse which has played an important part in the history of Christian dogma. Wisdom reveals herself as preceding all creation, stamped upon it all, one with God, yet in some way distinguishable from...
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...
_possessed_ So also R.V. text: marg., "or, _formed_." ἔκτισεν, LXX.; ἐκτήσατο, Aquila; possedit, Vulg. This word has been a battleground of controversy since the days of the Arian heresy. But it is we...
THE LORD POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING— All this, says Calmet, respects the Eternal Wisdom, the Word of the Father. This verse is very similar to John 1:1. The LXX render it, _He created me the beginn...
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...
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. THE LORD POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY, BEFORE HIS WORKS OF OLD. "Possessed me" [ qaanaaniy (H7069)]. The Sept...
8:22 works (l-12) See Psalms 46:8 ....
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...
Read, 'The Lord formed me as the beginning of his creation': cp. Colossians 1:15; Revelation 3:14....
We all need wisdom. Even God used his wisdom to make the world. In the beginning, before ancient times, wisdom was there....
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....
THE LORD POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY. — The Hebrew word translated” possessed” in this passage (_qânah_) seems originally to have signified to” set up” or “establish,” and is applied (1)...
יְֽהוָ֗ה קָ֭נָנִי רֵאשִׁ֣ית דַּרְכֹּ֑ו קֶ֖דֶם מִפְעָלָ֣יו...
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...
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, (k) before his works of old. (k) He declares by this the divinity and eternity of this wisdom, which he magnifies and praises through this book: mea...
_Possessed. As Christ was with God, equal to him in eternity, John i. Septuagint, "created," which many of the Fathers explain of the word incarnate, (see Cornelius a Lapide; Bossuet) or he hath "plac...
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...
THE LORD POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY,.... Not "created me", as the Targum and the Septuagint version; which version Arius following gave birth to his pernicious doctrine; who from hence c...
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. Ver. 22. _The Lord possessed me._] Not created me, _a_ as the Arians out of the Septuagint pressed it, to prove Christ a cr...
_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...
THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
The Lord possessed Me, brought Me into being, the reference being to the eternal begetting of the Father by which the Son was brought forth from eternity, Psalms 2:7, IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY, as a...
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...
POSSESSED ME, as his Son by eternal generation, who was from eternity with him, as is said, 1 THESSALONIANS 14:10; and _in him_, as he also was in me, 1 THESSALONIANS 14:10. IN THE BEGINNING; yea, and...
Proverbs 8:22 LORD H3068 possessed H7069 (H8804) beginning H7225 way H1870 Before H6924 works H4659...
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...
THE LORD POSSESSED ME That wisdom is more than the personification of an attribute of God, or of the will of God as best for man, but is a distinct adumbration of Christ, is sure to the devout mind....
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...
Colossians 1:17; John 1:1; John 1:2; Proverbs 3:19...
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...