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Proverbs 8 Summary
Wisdom Speaks: I Was There at Creation
The magnificent personification of Wisdom: she cries out at the gates. Wisdom existed before creation, present at God side when he set the foundations of the earth. Rejoicing in his whole world, delighting in mankind. Whoever finds wisdom finds life and receives favor from the LORD. Early church read this as Christ.
Key themes
Key verses
Proverbs 8:22-23
“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.”
Proverbs 8:30-31
“Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.”
Proverbs 8:35-36
“For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.”
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