Proverbs 8:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; ”

• Proverbs 8:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As one brought up with him - i. e., As his foster child. Others take the word in the original in another sense, “I was as his artificer,” a rendering which falls in best with the special point of...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then I was by him, (m) [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him; (m) Some read, a chief worker signifying that this wisdom, Christ Jesus, was equal...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I was by . I became beside Him. John 1:1 . See note on "was", Genesis 1:2 . by . close by. as one brought up with Him . as one constantly with Him, or under His constant care. Hebrew. 'amon,...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 770 WISDOM’S ADDRESS TO MEN Proverbs 8:29-32 . 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 al...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Then I was with him, as one brought up - אמון amon, a nursling, a darling child. Wisdom...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  As one brought up with him— The Hebrew signifies, As one co-operating, or working with him. This sense is favoured by the LXX, who read, I was harmonizing, or disposing things together with...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Then I was by him, (as) one brought up (with him) - ( John 1:1-2 ) The expression "by...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As one brought up with him — i.e. , his foster child; as Mordecai “brought up” Esther ( Esther 2:7 ). But the word may also bear the sense of “artificer.” It probably occurs in this meaning in Je...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him] ,.... He was then, and from all eternity, "by him", or "with him" q; which denotes his co-existence with God, and his relation to him as his Father;...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him; Ver. 30. Then I was by him. ] Accursed then for ever be that blasphemous assertion...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 h...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Wisdom Eternal and Divine.       22 The L ORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.   23 I was...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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. Rejoicing always before him; he and I had constant, an...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 (...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Origins and the Blessings of the Personal Wisdom

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• Proverbs 8:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Colossians 1:13 ; Isaiah 42:1 ; John 1:1-3 ; John 1:18 ; John 12:28 ; John 16:28 ; Matthew 17:5 ; Matthew 3:17

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