“ Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: ”
Compare Psalms 90:2 . What the Psalmist said of Yahweh, the teacher here asserts of Wisdom; she was before the everlasting hills.
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 prof...
settled. Compare Psalms 104:8 .
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
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 firml...
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...
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 pictu...
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...
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...
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; w...
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",...
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 be...
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 onl...
To the writer Proverbs 8:1-36 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 won...
Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The L ORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was...
Settled; or, fixed by their roots in the earth.
5) Wisdom Was With God In Creation And Rejoices In The Ongoing Of His Creation ( Proverbs 8:22-31 ). Lest we have any doubt about what wisdom Solomon is speaking about he now makes it very clear (...
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 G...
Proverbs 8:22-30 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...
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 W...
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--a...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-20 ; and...
The Origins and the Blessings of the Personal Wisdom
Hebrews 1:10 ; Job 15:7 ; Job 15:8 ; Job 38:4-11 ; Psalms 102:25-28 ; Psalms 90:2