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Verse Proverbs 8:26. _THE HIGHEST PART OF THE DUST OF THE WORLD_]
ראש עפרות תבל _rosh aphroth tebel_, "the first particle of
matter." The _prima materia_, the primitive atom. All these verses
(Prover...
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THE HIGHEST PART OF THE DUST OF THE WORLD - literally, “the head of
the dusts of the world;” an image of either:
(1) the dry land, habitable, fit for cultivation, as contrasted with
the waters of the...
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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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EARTH. Hebrew. _eretz_.
THE HIGHEST PART: or, the first atoms or particles.
WORLD. the habitable world. Hebrew. _tebel_ (not _'eretz_ dearth). The
Talmud (_Taanith_ vol. 10A) distinguishes _'eretz_...
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_highest part_ Rather, BEGINNING; R.V. text ("or _sum_," marg.); i.e.
the primary elements out of which other things were subsequently
formed. Comp. "all his work which God _created_and _made_," Genes...
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HIGHEST PART— _Sum,_ or _first atom._ Schultens....
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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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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the
highest part of the dust of the world.
WHILE AS YET HE HAD NOT MADE THE EARTH, NOR THE FIELDS, NOR THE
HIGHEST PART OF THE DUST OF TH...
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8:26 dust (n-18) Lit. 'particles,' plural....
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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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THE EARTH. — i.e., the cultivated and enclosed part of it.
THE FIELDS. — The open country.
THE HIGHEST PART OF THE DUST OF THE WORLD. Literally, “the head of
the dusts of the fertile earth” _i.e._ t...
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עַד ־לֹ֣א עָ֭שָׂה אֶ֣רֶץ וְ חוּצֹ֑ות
וְ֝
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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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_Poles. Hebrew, "head or height of the dust of the world." (Haydock)
--- I subsisted with the chaos, before things appeared in their
present form. (Calmet) --- The poles denote the north and south, or...
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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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WHILE AS YET HE HAD NOT MADE THE EARTH,.... That is, the Lord, who
possessed Wisdom, or Christ, and by whom he was set up; he as yet had
not made the earth, when this was done; this shows that the ear...
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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the
highest part of the dust of the world.
Ver. 26. _Nor the fields, nor the highest._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 8:24
_"_...
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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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while as yet He had not made the earth nor the flelds, literally, "the
open spaces," the deserts, as distinguished from the habitable part of
the earth, NOR THE HIGHEST PARTS OF THE DUST OF THE WORLD,...
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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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FIELDS:
Or, open places
HIGHEST:
Or, the chief part...
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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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THE EARTH, i.e. the dry land, called _earth_ after it was separated
from the waters, GENESIS 1:10. THE FIELDS; the plain and open parts of
the earth, distinguished from the mountains and hills, and th...
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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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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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Genesis 1:1...
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The earth — The dry land called earth after it was separated from
the waters Genesis 1:10. Fields — The plain and open parts of the
earth distinguished from the mountains. Dust — Of this lower part of...
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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...