Proverbs 8:23

1 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 1:11; Genesis 1:26; John 17:24; Micah 5:2; Psalms 2:6

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 8:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I was set up - Rather, “I was anointed” (compare Psalms 2:6 margin: 2 Chronicles 28:15 ). The image is that of Wisdom anointed, as at her birt...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(l) I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. (l) He declares the eternity of the Son of God, who was before all tim...
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 addre...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

set up . founded. Hebrew. nasak, as in Psalms 2:6 , "set". from everlastings . from the outset of the ages. Compare Hebrews 11:3 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. I was set up from everlasting - נסכתי nissachti, "I was diffused or poured...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I was set up from everlasting— According to the Hebrew, I have been anointed from all eternity; which is particularly applicable to Jesus Christ,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. I was set up - literally, 'anointed;' i:e., set apart, in the purpo...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Or ] i.e. ere, before.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I was set up. — An unusual word; also applied to our Lord in Psalms 2:6 when “set” as King on Zion.
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 draw...
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...
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 m...
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....
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I was set up from everlasting ,.... I, a person, and not a quality; a person, and not a nature; the person of Christ as the Son of God, and not the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Ver. 23. I was set up. ] Coronata sum; I was crowned; so some render...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 afterw...
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 th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The L ORD possessed me in the beginnin...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Set up, Heb. anointed ; ordained or constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, first to create, and then to uph...
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 Solo...
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...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:23-25 Wisdom meant more to the Jews than to us, who have lost the sense of man's unity by subdividing his faculties. It embraced to the...
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 eve...
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 mytho...
The Biblical Illustrator

I was set up from everlasting. Christ set up from everlasting Doctrine: That as Christ is the everlasting God, so, from all eternity, He was fo...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Origins and the Blessings of the Personal Wisdom
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I was set up from everlasting, ordained, inaugurated, established, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, from the primordial times of the eart...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Set up — Heb. anointed, constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, to create, to uphold and govern and judge, to...

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 8:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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