Proverbios 8:27

27 Cuando componía los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando señalaba por compás la sobrefaz 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 fundados, antes de los collados, era yo engendrada

26 no había aún hecho la tierra, ni las campiñas, ni el principio del polvo del mundo

27 Cuando componía los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando señalaba por compás la sobrefaz del abismo

28 cuando afirmaba los cielos arriba, cuando afirmaba las fuentes del abismo

29 cuando ponía al mar su estatuto, y a las aguas, que no pasaran su mandamiento; cuando señalaba los fundamentos de la tierra