Amsal 8:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sudah pada zaman purbakala aku dibentuk, pada mula pertama, sebelum bumi ada.

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Sudah pada zaman purbakala aku dibentuk, pada mula pertama, sebelum bumi ada.

Contextual Overview

²² The Lorde him selfe had me in possession in the beginning of his wayes, or euer he began his workes aforetime. ²³ I haue ben ordayned from euerlasting, and from the beginning or euer the earth was made. ²⁴ When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water. ²⁵ Before the foundations of the mountaines were layde: yea before all hilles, was I borne: ²⁶ The earth, and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the dust it selfe. ²⁷ For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about: ²⁸ When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe: ²⁹ When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ I was with him ordring all thinges, deliting dayly and reioysyng alway before hym. ³¹ As for the rounde compasse of this worlde I make it ioyfull: for my delite is to be among the chyldren of men.

Bible Verse Review
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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.