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Compare Psalms 90:2. What the Psalmist said of Yahweh, the teacher
here asserts of Wisdom; she was before the everlasting hills....
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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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SETTLED. Compare Psalms 104:8....
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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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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought
forth:
BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE SETTLED, BEFORE THE HILLS WAS I BROUGHT
FORTH. "Settled" - literally, sunk down, fixed firmly in t...
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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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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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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, 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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BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE SETTLED,.... "Plunged" l, or fixed in the
earth; and which was done by the great strength of the Lord, upon
their proper bases, Psalms 65:6; and which were "aborigine", or fr...
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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought
forth:
Ver. 25. _Was I brought forth._] Or, Begotten. Thus wisdom describes
her eternity in human words and expressions, for our bett...
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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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Before the mountains were settled, placed in position by the Creator,
as He laid the foundation of the earth, BEFORE THE HILLS, WAS I
BROUGHT FORTH,...
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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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SETTLED; or, _fixed_ by their roots in the earth....
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Proverbs 8:25 mountains H2022 settled H2883 (H8717) Before H6440 hills
H1389 forth H2342 (H8797)...
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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 8:22
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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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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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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Hebrews 1:10; Job 15:7; Job 15:8; Job 38:4; Psalms 102:25;...
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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...