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Verse Proverbs 8:28. _THE CLOUDS ABOVE_] שחקים _shechakim_, "the
ethereal regions," taking in the whole of the atmosphere, with all its
meteors, clouds, vapours, c....
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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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CLOUDS. skies, or finer clouds.
DEEP. abyss....
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_established the clouds_) Rather, MADE FIRM THE SKIES, R.V.
he _strengthened_ Rather, _when the fountains of the deep_ BECAME
STRONG, R.V. The same Heb. word is used of the sea, Nehemiah 9:11;
Isaiah...
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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 established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:
WHEN HE ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE. The clouds in their
constituents are thin and vapoury, and would soon di...
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8:28 strong; (p-14) Or 'when [he] strengthened the fountains of the
deep.'...
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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 ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE. — Literally, _made firm;_
comp. Genesis 1:6.
WHEN HE STRENGTHENED THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP. — More probably,
_when they flowed forth with strength.
_...
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בְּ אַמְּצֹ֣ו שְׁחָקִ֣ים מִ מָּ֑עַל
בַּ֝ עֲזֹ֗וז עִינֹ֥ות תְּהֹום׃...
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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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_Sky. Protestants, "clouds." Pagnin, "the air." Vulgate æthera.
Septuagint, "the clouds above." (Haydock) --- Moses assigns the higher
and lower waters the same origin, Genesis i. 7._...
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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 ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE,.... In which the waters are
bound, and yet are not rent under them; and where, in the thin air,
they hang heavy with them; where they are weighed by measure, and...
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When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:
Ver. 28. _When he established the clouds above._] That they might be
kept there, as it were in tuns and bottles,...
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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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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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ESTABLISHED, Heb. _strengthened_, by his word and decree, which alone
upholds the clouds in the air, which of themselves are thin and weak
bodies, and would quickly be dissolved or dispersed. When he...
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Proverbs 8:28 established H553 (H8763) clouds H7834 above H4605
strengthened H5810 (H8800) fountains H5869 deep H8415...
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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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Deuteronomy 15:7; Genesis 7:11; Job 35:5; Job 36:28; Judges 3:10;
Judges 6:2; Proverbs 3:20; Proverbs 31:17...
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Strengthened — When he shut up the fountains in the cavities of the
earth, and kept them there as it were by a strong band. The deep —
Which have their original from the deep, either from the sea, or...
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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...