The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Ver. 22. The Lord possessed me.] Not created me, a as the Arians out of the Septuagint pressed it, to prove Christ a creature.
Before his works of old.] Heb., Ante opera sua, ante tunc; id est, priusquam quis dicere potest tunc; before there was any either now or then; before all time, therefore from all eternity. For whatsoever was before the world and time, that was created with the world, must needs be eternal.
a εκτησε εκτισε .