then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him, as the Artist, Director, or Overseer of the work, Himself actively engaged in the creation of the earth; and I was daily His delight, that is, there was delight day after day on account of the wonderful relation between the Father and the Soa in their creative activity, rejoicing always before Him,
Verse Proverbs 8:30. _THEN I WAS WITH HIM_, AS _ONE BROUGHT UP_] אמון _amon_, a _nursling_, a _darling_ child. Wisdom continues its parable, says _Calmet_; and represents itself as a new-born child w...
AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM - i. e., As his foster child. Others take the word in the original in another sense, “I was as his artificer,” a rendering which falls in best with the special point of the...
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...
I WAS BY. I became beside Him. John 1:1. See note on "was", Genesis 1:2. BY. close by. AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM. as one constantly with Him, or under His constant care. Hebrew. _'amon,_ from root _...
_one brought up_with him] The Heb. root is used of bringing up a child, acting as nurse or foster-parent to it, Ruth 4:16; Esther 2:7. Hence the translation of A. V. But it may also be applied to one...
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...
AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM— The Hebrew signifies, _As one co-operating,_ or _working with him._ This sense is favoured by the LXX, who read, _I was harmonizing,_ or _disposing things together with him...
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...
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; THEN I WAS BY HIM, (AS) ONE BROUGHT UP (WITH HIM) - (John 1:1) The expression "by Him" impli...
8:30 nursling, (q-7) The nursling of his love. Or '[his] artificer.' The Hebrew is linked with 'artist' in Song of Solomon 7:1 . rejoicing (r-14) Or 'disporting.'...
_As_ ONE BROUGHT UP _with hint_] as a nursling or foster-child; RY 'as a master workman. 'I WAS DAILY _his_ DELIGHT] lit. 'I was delight daily day'; my whole existence was delight: cp. Psalms 120:7, '...
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....
God worked with Wisdom. (Solomon continues to compare wisdom with a woman.) Together, God and Wisdom were glad to see the world. Together, they were happy about God’s work. Especially, they were glad...
AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM — _i.e._, his foster child; as Mordecai “brought up” Esther (Esther 2:7). But the word may also bear the sense of “artificer.” It probably occurs in this meaning in Jeremiah...
וָֽ אֶהְיֶ֥ה אֶצְלֹ֗ו אָ֫מֹ֥ון וָֽ אֶהְיֶ֣ה ש
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...
Then I was by him, (m) [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him; (m) Some read, a chief worker signifying that this wisdom, Christ Jesus, was equal w...
_Forming. Hebrew, "one nursed," (Calmet) or nursing, nutritius. (Pagnin) --- He was not an idle spectator. --- Playing. With ease and surprising variety. (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...
THEN I WAS BY HIM, [AS] ONE BROUGHT UP [WITH HIM],.... He was then, and from all eternity, "by him", or "with him" q; which denotes his co-existence with God, and his relation to him as his Father; hi...
_Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;_ Ver. 30. _Then I was by him._] Accursed then for ever be that blasphemous assertion of...
_Then I was by him_ Conversant with him, and united to him, as was said before; _as one brought up with him_ As one tenderly and dearly beloved by him. _I was daily his delight_ His _elect; in whom hi...
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...
BY HIM; conversant with him, and united to him, as was said before. AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM; as one tenderly and dearly beloved by him. REJOICING ALWAYS BEFORE HIM; he and I had constant, and intim...
Proverbs 8:30 Him H681 craftsman H525 daily H3117 H3117 delight H8191 Rejoicing H7832 (H8764) always H6256 before...
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...
_And I was daily His delight._ THE HAPPINESS OF CHRIST ANTECEDENT TO HIS INCARNATION The delights between the Father and the Son, before His assumption of our nature, were twofold. 1. They delighte...
_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 1:13; Isaiah 42:1; John 1:1; John 1:18; John 12:28;...
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...