his decree So R.V. marg.; its bound, R.V. text. It may be doubted, however, whether the translators of A.V. did not mean, its(for which they often use his) decree, i.e. the law laid upon it by God for its observance. Terminum suum, Vulg. Comp. Job 38:8-11; Psalms 104:9.
appointed or, marked out, R.V.
Verse Proverbs 8:29. _WHEN HE GAVE TO THE SEA HIS DECREE_] When he assigned its limits, adjusted its saltness, and proportioned the _extent of_ _the surface_ to the quantity of _vapours_ to be raised...
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...
APPOINTED. fixed by statute, or marked out....
DISCOURSE: 770 WISDOM’S ADDRESS TO MEN Proverbs 8:29. _When he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always befo...
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 he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: WHEN HE GAVE TO THE SEA HIS DECREE, THAT THE WATERS SHOULD NOT P...
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....
WHEN HE GAVE TO THE SEA HIS DECREE... — Compare the same thoughts in Job 38:4; Job 38:10....
בְּ שׂ֘וּמֹ֤ו לַ † יָּ֨ם ׀ חֻקֹּ֗ו וּ֭...
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...
_Pass. This is often remarked, Psalm xli. 8. --- Earth. See Job xxxviii. 8. (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 HE GAVE TO THE SEA HIS DECREE, THAT THE WATERS SHOULD NOT PASS HIS COMMANDMENT,.... A perpetual decree, which never has been altered nor never will: he has placed the sand for the bounds of the s...
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Ver. 29. _When he appointed the foundations._] That it should rema...
_When he prepared the heavens I was there_ Not as an idle spectator, but as a co-worker with my Father. _When he set a compass upon the face of the depth_ Of that great abyss of water and earth, mixed...
THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
when He gave to the sea His decree, setting its bounds after the division of water and dry land, Genesis 1:9, THAT THE WATERS SHOULD NOT PASS HIS COMMANDMENT, no farther than He permitted them to go;...
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...
HIS DECREE; or, _his bound or limits_, to wit, those parts of the earth which border upon it. NOT PASS HIS COMMANDMENT, i.e. not overflow the earth. APPOINTED, or _laid, the foundations o the earth_;...
Proverbs 8:29 assigned H7760 (H8800) sea H3220 limit H2706 waters H4325 transgress H5674 (H8799) command H6310 out
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 8:29 I. It is in the active service of life, in the work of the marketplace, in the interchange of thought and the collision of minds differently constituted, that wisdom speaks to us. She c...
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...
Genesis 1:10; Genesis 1:9; Jeremiah 5:22; Job 38:4; Job 38:8;...
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...