Proverbs 8:20-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 8:12-21

Wisdom here is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word and Christ in the heart, not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. It is the word of God, the whole compass of divine revelation; it is God the Word, in whom all divine revelation centres; it is the soul formed by the word; it is Christ formed in the soul; it is religion in the purity and power of it. Glorious things are here spoken of this excellent person, this... read more

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 8:20

I lead in the way of righteousness ,.... As a king his subjects, a shepherd his flock; as a guide to persons that are ignorant and out of the way; as parents their children, teaching them to go; or as a master his scholars: and the way Wisdom, or Christ, leads his people in, is "the way of righteousness"; the doctrine of righteousness, or the way and manner of a sinner's justification in the sight of God; all men are out of the way of it, and are ignorant of the right way; Christ leads them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:21

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance ,.... Substantial blessings, blessings indeed, as all spiritual ones are; and substantial grace, as every grace is; and substantial communion with God and Christ, which is a real thing, and had in the way of righteousness; also substantial happiness hereafter, as eternal life is; which being expressed by "substance", or "that which is" F7 יש "quod est", Junius & Tremellius; "rem solido vereque subsistentem", Gejerus; "solidum... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:22

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way ,.... Not "created me", as the Targum and the Septuagint version; which version Arius following gave birth to his pernicious doctrine; who from hence concluded Christ is a creature, and was the first creature that God made, not of the same but of a like nature with himself, in some moment or period of eternity; and by whom he made all others: the Word, or Wisdom of God is never said to be created; and if as such he was created, God must have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:23

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 human nature of Christ, which then did not exist; this phrase designs the ordination and constitution of Christ in his office as Mediator. So the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "I was ordained"; Christ was foreordained to be the Redeemer and Saviour of men, to be the propitiation for their sins, to be the head of the church, and the Judge of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths, I was brought forth ,.... Not only in the decree of God, as the head of the elect; foreordained to be the Redeemer of them, and to be the propitiation for their sins; and appointed the Judge of the world, and heir of all things; but "was begotten", as the Targum and Syriac version; the Septuagint is, "he begot me"; and so it is to be understood of the eternal generation and sonship of Christ; for the word חוללתי is used of generation, Job 15:7 . Christ is the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled ,.... "Plunged" F12 הטבעו "defixi", Montanus; "mergerentur", Tigurine version; "immersi", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius. , or fixed in the earth; and which was done by the great strength of the Lord, upon their proper bases, Psalm 65:6 ; and which were "aborigine", or from the beginning of the world, and therefore called the ancient mountains, Deuteronomy 33:15 ; to be before the mountains is a periphrasis of eternity, and is a phrase... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:26

While as yet he had not made the earth ,.... That is, the Lord, who possessed Wisdom, or Christ, and by whom he was set up; he as yet had not made the earth, when this was done; this shows that the earth had a beginning, contrary to those philosophers who asserted the eternity of it; that Christ was before that was, for it was made by him; and consequently he must be eternal, and was before any man was, since the earth was made before man; and that he was not of the earth, earthy, as was the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:20

I lead in the way of righteousness - Nothing but the teaching that comes from God by his word and Spirit can do this. read more

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