SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:23
Eternalmente tuve el principado, desde el principio, antes de la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:23
Verse 23. I was set up from everlasting ] ytksn nissachti, "I was diffused or poured out," from űsn nasach, "to diffuse, pour abroad, as a spirit or disposition," Isa. xxix. 10. See Parkhurst. Or from űs 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. I was set up from everlasting , etc.] 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” f226 ; 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 ( Psalm 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-31 - The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, befor the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretche sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?
Original Hebrew
מעולם 5769 נסכתי 5258 מראשׁ 7218 מקדמי 6924 ארץ׃ 776
