Proverbs 8:23 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:23

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

BSB

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ASV

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

KJV

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

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Commentary

4 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Discourses Against the Arians 2.22.72-74 (373)

Since the heretics, reading the next verse, take a perverse view of that also, because it is written, "He founded me before the world," namely, that this is said of the Godhead of the Word and not of his incarnate presence, it is necessary, explaining this verse also, to show their error.It is written, "The Lord in Wisdom founded the earth; if then by wisdom the earth is founded, how can he who founds be founded?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 the world.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I was set up - Rather, “I was anointed” (compare Psa 2:6 margin: 2Ch 28:15). The image is that of Wisdom anointed, as at her birth, with “the oil of gladness.” Or ever the earth was - literally, “from the times before the earth.”

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

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מֵ֭עוֹלָם	Me.'o.lom	from long ago	H5769 →
נִסַּ֥כְתִּי	ni.Sakh.ti	I was installed	H5258 →
מֵרֹ֗אשׁ	me.Rosh	from [the] beginning	H7218 →
מִקַּדְמֵי־	mi.kad.mei-	from [the] beginnings of	H6924 →
אָֽרֶץ׃	'A.retz	[the] earth	H776 →

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The walk8

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
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the…
leads to
- Colossians 3:10
  and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- Ephesians 4:24
  and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Psalms 8:4–8
  what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- Genesis 3:22
  Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life,…
- Genesis 5:1
  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
Through
Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days…
leads to
- Matthew 2:6
  ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people…
- John 7:42
  Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
Through
John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
leads to
- John 1:1–3
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Proverbs