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Verse Proverbs 8:27. _WHEN HE PREPARED THE HEAVENS, I_ WAS _THERE_]
For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom, skill,
contrivance, are more manifest, than in the construction of the...
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A COMPASS - Better as in the margin and Job 22:14 (see the note), i.
e., the great vault of heaven stretched over the deep seas....
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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 (Proverb...
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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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COMPASS. a circle, or vault....
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_compass_ Rather, CIRCLE, R.V. text, A.V. marg. The reference is to
the heavens, just mentioned, which seem to stand like a vault or dome
upon the sea, marked out by the circle of the horizon on its s...
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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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When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon
the face of the depth:
WHEN HE PREPARED THE HEAVENS, I (WAS) THERE: WHEN HE SET A COMPASS
UPON THE FACE OF THE DEPTH.
"Prepar...
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8:27 circle (o-13) See Job 26:10 ; Isaiah 40:22 ....
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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.
V2 She shouts from the hills by the road...
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WHEN HE SET A COMPASS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEPTH — _i.e.,_ when He
stretched the vault of heaven over it: the same expression is used in
Job 22:14. It is also interpreted of the circle of the horizon....
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בַּ הֲכִינֹ֣ו שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑נִי
בְּ ח֥וּקֹו ח֝֗וּג עַל ־פְּנֵ֥י
תְהֹֽום׃...
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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 t...
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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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CHAPTER VIII....
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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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WHEN HE PREPARED THE HEAVENS, I [WAS] THERE,.... Made, beautified, and
adorned them; when he gave them their form, figure, magnitude, and
motion; when he garnished them with the sun, moon, and stars;...
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When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass
upon the face of the depth:
Ver. 27. _When he prepared the heavens._] Or, Caused them to be
prepared, took order to have it done, vi...
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_When he prepared the heavens I was there_ Not as an idle spectator,
but as a co-worker with my Father. _When he set a compass upon the
face of the depth_ Of that great abyss of water and earth, mixed...
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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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A COMPASS:
Or, a circle...
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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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I WAS THERE, not as an idle spectator, but as a co-worker with my
Father. OF THE DEPTH, i.e. of that great and deep abyss of water and
earth mixed together, which is called both _earth_ and _water_, a...
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Proverbs 8:27 prepared H3559 (H8687) heavens H8064 drew H2710 (H8800)
circle H2329 face H6440 deep H8415
he prepared - Psalms 33:6, Psalms 103:19, Psalms 136:5; Jeremiah
10:12;...
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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 i...
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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 WAS DAILY HIS DELIGHT (v. Proverbs 8:30; see also Proverbs...
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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 gre...
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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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Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 40:22; Jeremiah
10:12; Psalms 103:19; Psalms 136:5; Psalms 33:6...
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I was there — As co — worker with my Father. Depth — Of that
great abyss of water and earth mixed together, which is called both
earth and water and the deep, Genesis 1:2, when he made this lower
worl...
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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...