...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...

...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...

...before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 25 Before the mountains were settled, jefore the hills was I brought forth. 26 While as yet he had...

...allege the expressions of the divine Word, (verses 24, 25,) When there were no depths I was born ; When there were no fountains abounding with water....Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills were, I was born. Those, of course, who give into this scheme will endeavour to explain this, either...

...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. 12, 17, 23, 21, 25....

...(probably not unknown to Horace) as also to that Scripture cabala, "I was set up from everlasting, or ever the earth was ; when there were no depths, I was brought forth," &c. But of this more afterward. Lastly, We shall conclude with Manilius, who lived in the same Augustean...

...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...

...is the Son of God by eternal generation, himself sheweth, Prov. viii. 22, 23, 24. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of. his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting,Jrom the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth....

...is the Son of God by eternal generation, himself sheweth, Prov. viii. 22, 23, 24. 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. When there were no depths, I was brought forth....

...following verses. Ver. 24, 25. When there were rio depths I was brought forth, when there were no Jountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth. The antiquity of his existence, of his generation by the Father, and his appointment to be our Redeemer,...