the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
New King James Version
Proverbs 8:23
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- InternationalDevotionals:
- DailyParallel Translations
I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
I was created in the very beginning, even before the world began.
From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth existed.
"From everlasting I was established and ordained, From the beginning, before the earth existed, [I, godly wisdom, existed].
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
Fro with out bigynnyng Y was ordeined; and fro elde tymes, bifor that the erthe was maad.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
to create the earth. At the very first, the Lord gave life to me.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
I was appointed before the world, before the start, before the earth's beginnings.
I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
I was formed a long time ago, before the world was made.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning, or euer the earth was.
I was set apart long ago, from the beginning, before the earth was.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.
I was established from everlasting, from the beginning, before he made the earth.
I was made in the very beginning, at the first, before the world began.
At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;
I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
I haue ben ordayned from euerlasting, and from the beginning or euer the earth was made.
He established me before time was in the beginning, before he made the earth:
I was formed before ancient times,from the beginning, before the earth began.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the eretz existed.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning of the earth.
I was set up from everlasting, from that which was before the earth.
From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
I haue bene ordened fro euerlastige, & fro ye beginnynge or euer the earth was made.
"From eternity I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
"From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
From everlasting I was installed,From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 1:26, Psalms 2:6, Micah 5:2, John 17:24, Ephesians 1:10, Ephesians 1:11, 1 John 1:1, 1 John 1:2
Reciprocal: Job 26:7 - General Job 34:13 - Who hath given Psalms 93:2 - Thy Psalms 102:25 - General Isaiah 9:6 - The everlasting Father Isaiah 43:13 - before Isaiah 57:15 - that inhabiteth Acts 14:15 - which Colossians 1:17 - he 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - from Titus 1:2 - before 1 Peter 1:20 - verily
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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. It intends likewise his inauguration into his office, and his investiture with it; and because anointing with oil was used in installing persons into the offices of prophet, priest, and king; hence Christ's instalment into his office as Mediator is here expressed by an anointing; for the words may be rendered, "I was anointed" i; it takes in all that goes to his constitution as Mediator, his call, appointment, and investiture; and the whole of his office, every part and branch of it; and chiefly his kingly office, with reference to which the same word is used Psalms 2:6; and so Gersom paraphrases it,
"and there were given to me power, dominion, and greatness;''
all which suppose the eternity of his person; for had he not existed from everlasting, he could not have been set up, and anointed as Mediator, or invested with his office as such;
from the beginning, or ever the earth was; or from the first of the earth, or the original of it; that is, before all time, before the earth or anything was created; this further confirms the eternal existence of Christ's person, the antiquity of his office, the early provision of grace in him as Mediator for his people, and may lead to entertain high and honourable thoughts of him.
i נסכתי "uncta sum", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens; "inuncta fui", Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I was set up - Rather, “I was anointed” (compare Psalms 2:6 margin: 2 Chronicles 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.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 8:23. I was set up from everlasting — נסכתי nissachti, "I was diffused or poured out," from נסך nasach, "to diffuse, pour abroad, as a spirit or disposition," Isaiah 29:10. See Parkhurst. Or from סך sach, "to cover, overspread, smear over, as with oil;" to be anointed king. Hence some have translated it, principatum habui, I had the principality, or was a ruler, governor, and director, from eternity. All the schemes, plans, and circumstances, relative to creation, government, providence, and to all being, material, animal, and intellectual, were conceived in the Divine mind, by the Divine wisdom, from eternity, or ever the earth was. There was no fortuitous creation, no jumbling concourse of original atoms, that entered into the composition of created beings; all was the effect of the plans before conceived, laid down, and at last acted upon by God's eternal wisdom.
