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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
_P...
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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 - lite...
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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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SET UP. founded. Hebrew. _nasak,_ as in Psalms 2:6, "set".
FROM EVERLASTINGS. from the outset of the ages. Compare Hebrews 11:3....
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_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...
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I WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING— According to the Hebrew, _I have been
anointed from all eternity;_ which is particularly applicable to Jesus
Christ, the anointed of the Father....
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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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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 H...
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8:23 up (m-4) Lit. 'anointed.' as Psalms 2:6 ....
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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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OR] i.e. ere, before....
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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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Wisdom is like God’s word. God’s word existed in the beginning.
And God’s word created the world, when God the Father gave his
command. (John 1:1)
The ‘word’ is another name for Jesus. Jesus always e...
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I WAS SET UP. — An unusual word; also applied to our Lord in Psalms
2:6 when “set” as King on Zion....
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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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(l) I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the
earth was.
(l) He declares the eternity of the Son of God, who was before all
time, and ever present with the father....
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_Up. Hebrew, "anointed." Septuagint, "he founded." Christ was
appointed to be the foundation, on which we must be built. (St.
Athanasius iii. Orat.)_...
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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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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; thi...
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I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth
was.
Ver. 23. _I was set up._] _Coronata sum; _ I was crowned; so some
render it. _Inuncta fui,_ I was anointed - so others - for...
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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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I was set up from everlasting, ordained, inaugurated, established,
FROM THE BEGINNING, OR EVER THE EARTH WAS, from the primordial times
of the earth, the eternity of the personal Word being asserted a...
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THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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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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SET UP, Heb. _anointed_; ordained or constituted to be the person by
whom the Father resolved to do all his works, first to create, and
then to uphold, and govern, and judge, and afterwards to redeem...
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Proverbs 8:23 established H5258 (H8738) everlasting H5769 beginning
H7218 ever H6924 earth H776...
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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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Proverbs 8:23
Wisdom meant more to the Jews than to us, who have lost the sense of
man's unity by subdividing his faculties. It embraced to the Jew the
mental and material range of the spiritual life:...
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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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_I was set up from everlasting._
CHRIST SET UP FROM EVERLASTING
Doctrine: That as Christ is the everlasting God, so, from all
eternity, He was foreordained and set up for the great service of
man’s...
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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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1 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 1:11; Genesis 1:26;...
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Set up — Heb. anointed, constituted to be the person by whom the
Father resolved to do all his works, to create, to uphold and govern
and judge, to redeem and save the world. From the beginning — Befo...
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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...