Proverbs 8:23

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 Hebrew ( nicaktiy (H5258)) as in Psalms 2:6, "I have set (margin, anointed) my King," etc. FROM EVERLASTING ( Mee`owlam (H5769)) - implying real eternity (Psalms 93:2, "Thou art from everlasting"). FROM EVERLASTING ( Mee`owlam (H5769)) - implying real eternity ...

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 was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?...

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 _Parkhurst_. Or from סך _sach_, "to cover, overspread, smear over, as with _oil_;" to be _anointed_ king. Hence some have translated it, _principatum habui_, I had the principality, or was a ruler, governor, and director, from eternity. All the schemes, plans, and circumstances, relative to creation, government, providence, and to all being, _material, animal_, and _intellectual_, were conceived in the Divine mind, by the Divine wisdom, from eternity, _or ever_ _the earth was_. There was no _fortuitous creation_, no _jumbling_ concourse of...

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 - literally, “from the times before the earth.”...

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 greatness of the blessings which she offers exhibits in the most marked manner the nothingness of the deceiver's gifts. One is reminded of the celebrated episode of the choice of Hercules, delineated by Xenophon, 'Memorab.,' 2.1. 21, etc. The chapter divides itself into four sections. (1) Introductory (Proverbs 7:1); Wisdom calls on all to listen, and gives reasons for trusting to her ...

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; this phrase designs the ordination and constitution of Christ in his office as Mediator. So the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "I was ordained"; Christ was foreordained to be the Redeemer and Saviour of men, to be the propitiation for their sins, to be the head of the church, and the Judge of the world. It intends likewise his inauguration into his office, and his investiture with it; and because anointing with oil was used in installing persons into the offices of prophet, priest, and king; hence Christ's instalment into his office as Mediator is here expressed by an anointing; for the words may be rendered, "I was anointed" i; it takes in all that goes to his constitution as Mediator, his...

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 8:32) Proverbs 8:1. This is one of the most interesting Chapter s in the entire book. It begins with a call and appeal of wisdom, much like the call and appeal of the first chapter. If wisdom calls, has a voice, then wisdom must also be a person. Who personified wisdom is we learn most blessedly in this chapt

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 profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1 with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller discussion especially Cheyne, _Job and Solomon,_ pp. 156f.). The relation of the conception of Wisdom personified to the Stoic Logos and to Greek philosophy in general cannot be discussed here. (See _Wisdom Literature_ in HDB, and especially the excellent introduction by Holmes to the Book of Wisdom in Charles-' _Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha._) The two main lines of development of this conception in H

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 over into the meaning of _setting fast, establishing_, &c. So the Niph, Proverbs 8:23, and hence נָסִיךְ means, not -one anointed," but -one appointed" to his office." Bp. Perowne, _Crit. Note_on Psalms 2:6. See also note there in this Series. ἐθεμελίωσέ με, LXX., ordinata sum, Vulg....