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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-31

That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scripture by itself. If Solomon himself designed only the praise of wisdom as it is an attribute of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, I was there ,.... Made, beautified, and adorned them; when he gave them their form, figure, magnitude, and motion; when he garnished them with the sun, moon, and stars; then was Christ present, not as a mere spectator, but as a co-worker; see Hebrews 1:10 ; and even the third heaven, the place and state of glorified saints, prepared for them from the foundation of the world, Matthew 25:34 ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth : or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:28

When he established the clouds above ,.... In which the waters are bound, and yet are not rent under them; and where, in the thin air, they hang heavy with them; where they are weighed by measure, and a decree made for them when they shall fall; and when they do, the Lord makes small the drops of water, which the clouds do drop and distil on men abundantly; the spreadings of which are beyond understanding, and are unaccountable, and must be referred to the power of God; who has settled and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:29

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ,.... A perpetual decree, which never has been altered nor never will: he has placed the sand for the bounds of the sea everywhere, which it cannot pass, though its waves toss, foam, and roar; this is his decreed place, with which he has shut it up, as with doors, bars, and bolts; so that those proud waves may come hitherto and no further, Jeremiah 5:22 ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:30

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him ,.... He was then, and from all eternity, "by him", or "with him" F17 אצלו "cum eo", V. L. "apud eum", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.; ; which denotes his co-existence with God, and his relation to him as his Father; his nearness to him, his equality with him, and his distinction from him: he was by him when the names of God's elect were put down in the book of life; he was by him and with him in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, I was there - For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom, skill, contrivance, are more manifest, than in the construction of the visible heavens. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth - Does not this refer to the establishment of the law of gravitation? by which all the particles of matter, tending to a common center, would produce in all bodies the orbicular form, which we see them have; so that even the waters are not only... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:28

The clouds above - שחקים shechakim , "the ethereal regions," taking in the whole of the atmosphere, with all its meteors, clouds, vapours, etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:29

When he gave to the sea his decree - When he assigned its limits, adjusted its saltness, and proportioned the extent of the surface to the quantity of vapors to be raised from it, for the irrigation of the terrene surface. The foundations of the earth - Those irreversible laws by which all its motions are governed; its annual and diurnal rotation, and particularly its centrifugal and centripetal forces; by the former of which it has its annual motion round the sun like all other planets;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:30

Then I was with him, as one brought up - אמון amon , a nursling, a darling child. Wisdom continues its parable, says Calmet; and represents itself as a new-born child which is ever near its parent, and takes pleasure to see him act, and to sport in his presence. This is poetical and highly figurative; and they who think they find the deity of Jesus Christ in these metaphors should be very cautious how they apply such terms as these; so that while they are endeavoring to defend the truth,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 8:1-36

14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-27 ; and the exceeding greatness of the blessings which she offers exhibits in the most marked manner the nothingness of the deceiver's gifts. One is reminded of the celebrated episode of the choice of Hercules, delineated by Xenophon, 'Memorab.,' 2.1. 21, etc. The chapter divides itself into four sections. read more

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