Proverbs 8:27

27 "When he set up the heavens, I was there. When he traced the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

Proverbs 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.

Proverbs 8:27 In-Context

25 I was born before the mountains were settled in their places and before the hills,

26 when he had not yet made land or fields or the first dust of the world.

27 "When he set up the heavens, I was there. When he traced the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

28 when he established the skies above, when he determined the currents in the ocean,

29 when he set a limit for the sea so the waters would not overstep his command, when he traced the foundations of the earth,