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Verse Proverbs 8:31. _REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH_]
There God displays especially his wisdom in ordering and directing
_human_ _beings_, and in providing for their wants. The _wisdom_...
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Wisdom rejoices yet more in the world as inhabited by God’s rational
creatures. (compare Isaiah 45:18). Giving joy and delight to God, she
finds her delight among the sons of men. These words, like th...
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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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THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH. Hebrew. _tebel 'arez._ See note on
"world", Proverbs 8:26. men. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. Compare Genesis
2:19; Genesis 3:8;...
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_the habitable part of his earth_ Rather, HIS HABITABLE EARTH, R.V.,
lit. THE HABITABLE WORLD OF HIS EARTH. See Job 37:12, where the same
Heb. expression is rendered, _the habitable world_, R.V.
The...
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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...
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MY DELIGHTS WERE WITH THE SONS OF MEN— The wisdom of God
communicated itself to men, preferably to all other sensible creatures
here below; having given to them alone intelligence, and a soul
capable...
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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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Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were
with the sons of men.
REJOICING IS THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH. Not only do I rejoice
in the presence of the Father, but also...
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8:31 rejoicing (r-1) Or 'disporting.' part (s-5) Lit. 'world,' _
Tebel_ , as 'circuit,' Job 37:12 . That part of the earth fitted for
man to live on. see 1 Samuel 2:8 ; Psalms 90:2 ;...
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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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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...
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REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH. — Rather, _the fertile
part._ (Comp. Genesis 1:31, where the satisfaction of God with His
creation is described; and Psalms 104:31.)
MY DELIGHTS WERE WITH...
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מְ֭שַׂחֶקֶת בְּ תֵבֵ֣ל אַרְצֹ֑ו וְ֝
שַׁעֲשֻׁעַ֗י...
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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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(n) Rejoicing in the habitable part of (o) his earth; and my delights
[were] with the sons of men.
(n) By which is declared that the work of the creation was no pain,
but a solace to the wisdom of Go...
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_Men. God saw that all was good, but delighted most in his own image.
(Menochius) --- He prefers man before all other corporeal creatures.
(Worthington) --- To him alone below he has granted understan...
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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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REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH,.... In that part of the
earth which is habitable; in filling it with inhabitants; in
preserving and sustaining it in being, and the inhabitants of it; in...
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_Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were]
with the sons of men._
Ver. 31. _Rejoicing in the habitable part._] That is, In the human
nature, wherein the fulness of the Godh...
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_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...
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THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, the land where man
lived; AND MY DELIGHTS WERE WITH THE SONS OF MEN, Genesis 1:10;
Genesis 18:31. Thus the divine attributes of the personal Wisdom, His
e...
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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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REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH; in contemplating the
wonderful wisdom and goodness of God in the making and ordering of all
his creatures, and of man especially. MY DELIGHTS WERE WITH 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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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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_Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth._
THE REJOICING OF WISDOM
I. Where did the Son of God by anticipation rejoice? “Habitable part
of His earth.” “Sons of men.”
1. The simple fact in itsel...
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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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2 Corinthians 8:9; John 13:1; John 4:34; Psalms 16:3; Psalms 40:6...
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My delights were — To uphold them by my power and providence, to
reveal myself and my Father's will to them from age to age, to assume
their nature, and to redeem and save them....
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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...