Proverbs 8:22 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:22

The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

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ASV

Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF EGYPT 17 (373)

But it is written, say they, 'The Lord created me in the beginning of His ways for His works.' O untaught and insensate that ye are! He is called also in the Scriptures, 'servant,' and 'son of a handmaid,' and 'lamb,' and 'sheep,' and it is said that He suffered toil, and thirst, and was beaten, and has suffered pain.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Strictly, God's attributes are part of Himself. Yet, to the poetical structure of the whole passage, this commendation of wisdom is entirely consonant. In order of time all His attributes are coincident and eternal as Himself.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יְֽהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
קָ֭נָנִי	Ka.na.ni	he created me	H7069 →
רֵאשִׁ֣ית	re.Shit	[the] beginning of	H7225 →
דַּרְכּ֑וֹ	dar.Ko	way his	H1870 →
קֶ֖דֶם	Ke.dem	[the] beginning of	H6924 →
מִפְעָלָ֣יו	mif.'a.Lav	works his	H4659 →
מֵאָֽז׃	me.'Az	from then	H227 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
leads to
- Hebrews 1:3
  The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the…
- 1 Corinthians 8:6
  yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and…
- John 8:58
  “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
- Acts 17:28
  ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- John 1:1–3
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Through
Psalms 104:24
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
leads to
- Jeremiah 10:12
  The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 40:5
  Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I…
Through
Proverbs 3:19
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.
leads to
- Psalms 104:24
  How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

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Where the connections lead

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About Proverbs