Proverbs 8:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way - Wisdom is not acquired by the Divine Being; man, and even angels, learn it by slow and progressive degrees; but in God it is as eternally inherent as any other essential attribute of his nature. The Targum makes this wisdom a creature, by thus translating the passage: אלהא בראני בריש בריתיה Elaha barani bereish biriteiah, "God created me in the beginning of his creatures." The Syriac is the same. This is as absurd and heretical as some modern glosses on the same passage.

Proverbs 8:22

22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.