...of the hand of our God, — of Him who says, " When there were no depths I was brought forth ; and when there were no fountains abounding with water;...were settled; before the hills was I brought forth. Then was I by him as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before...

...viii. 22, 23, 25. The Lord possessed me, speaking of his eternal Word, or Son, in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth iva.i ; before the mountains were nettled ; before the hills was I brought...

...before his ivorks oj old. 1 was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was ; before the mountains were settled ; before the hills was I brought forth. Where they suppose that God's possessing him, which is certainly to be taken in a different sense from...

...before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : 26 While as yet he had...

...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...

...beginning of his way, before his work of old. I was anointed a covenant head from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, when there were no depths, I was begotten ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before...

...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,...the mountains were settled ; before the hills was 1 brought forth. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the...