...applied to Christ both by Matt/iew and John. The§ LOrd possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, — then I was by him as one brought up with htm: and I was daily...

...:" And especially those words in ver. 22, 23 : " The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, ed him, and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them, said : Da beginning, or ever the earth was." But the meaning of these words I take to be this: ' that God himself...

...earth and the v<>rl<!, even from everlasting." So it is said, Prov. viii. 22, &c. " 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," &c. | 10. That the kingdom of the Messiah is so commonly called...

...passage in Proverbs, chap. viii. 30. where Divine wisdom is introduced, saying, The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old : I was set up from everlasting, or ever the earth •was, &c. And the word was God. " It is observable," says Dr. Macknight, " that...

...all things after his own will, that all should be to the praise of his glory : " The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of...everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before...

...conversed forty days with God, in the mount; but thus saith uncreated Wisdom, " 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;" " before Abraham was, I am." " In the beginning was the Word, and...

...slain from the foundation of the world, than the words of Christ himself, Prov. viii. 23 — 32, " I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths I was brought forth : when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before...

...to those in Proverbs viii. •23, 24, where the same truth is also asserted : The Lord possess•d me in the beginning of his way ; before his works of old. I was ,tt up from everlasting ; from the beginning ; or ever the earth was. In the following verse the Evangelist...

...gives of the personality of wisdom. "I, Wisdom, dwell with Prudence — I love them that love me — I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, before the mountains were settled, before the hills, was I brought forth." viii....

...it is to be from the beginning, as he him.self speaks in Prov. viii. 22, 23. " The Lord possessed -" me in the beginning of his way, before his works of -" old. I was set up from everlasting, from the begin" ning, or ever the earth was." He was a person in the Godhead, co-equal and co-eternal with the...