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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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8:22 works (l-12) See Psalms 46:8 ....
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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...
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Read, 'The Lord formed me as the beginning of his creation': cp.
Colossians 1:15; Revelation 3:14....
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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....
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We all need wisdom. Even God used his wisdom to make the world. In the
beginning, before ancient times, wisdom was there....
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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)...
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יְֽהוָ֗ה קָ֭נָנִי רֵאשִׁ֣ית
דַּרְכֹּ֑ו קֶ֖דֶם מִפְעָלָ֣יו...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Proverbs 8:22 LORD H3068 possessed H7069 (H8804) beginning H7225 way
H1870 Before H6924 works H4659...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Colossians 1:17; John 1:1; John 1:2; Proverbs 3:19...
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Possessed me — As his son by eternal generation, before the
beginning. Of old — His works of creation....
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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...