Proverbios 8:27

27 Cuando estableció los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando trazó un círculo sobre la faz del abismo,

Proverbios 8:27 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there
Made, beautified, and adorned them; when he gave them their form, figure, magnitude, and motion; when he garnished them with the sun, moon, and stars; then was Christ present, not as a mere spectator, but as a co-worker; see ( Hebrews 1:10 ) ; and even the third heaven, the place and state of glorified saints, prepared for them from the foundation of the world, ( Matthew 25:34 ) ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
or "compassed the waters with bounds", as Job says, ( Proverbs 26:10 ) ; or made the earth with the sea globular, which make one terraqueous globe: or "made a circle" {p}; all around it, called the circle of the earth, on which he sits, ( Isaiah 40:22 ) ; this compass may design the vast expanse or firmament of heaven, which is stretched and drawn around the terraqueous globe as a canopy or curtain. Christ was with his Father on the first day's creation of the heavens; and on the second day, when the firmament was made, and was before them both.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (gwx wqxb) "describendo circulum", Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.

Proverbios 8:27 In-Context

25 Antes que los montes fueran asentados, antes que las colinas, fui engendrada,

26 cuando El no había hecho aún la tierra y los campos, ni el polvo primero del mundo.

27 Cuando estableció los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando trazó un círculo sobre la faz del abismo,

28 cuando arriba afirmó los cielos, cuando las fuentes del abismo se afianzaron,

29 cuando al mar puso sus límites para que las aguas no transgredieran su mandato, cuando señaló los cimientos de la tierra,