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Selected Verse: Proverbs 8:26 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 8:26 |
King James |
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
fields--or, "out places," "deserts," as opposite to (habitable) "world."
highest part--or, "sum," all particles together, |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The highest part of the dust of the world - literally, "the head of the dusts of the world;" an image of either:
(1) the dry land, habitable, fit for cultivation, as contrasted with the waters of the chaotic deep; or
(2) man himself. Compare Ecc 3:20. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The earth - The dry land called earth after it was separated from the waters Gen 1:10. Fields - The plain and open parts of the earth distinguished from the mountains. Dust - Of this lower part of the world which consists of dust. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The highest part of the dust of the world - ראש עפרות תבל rosh aphroth tebel, "the first particle of matter." The prima materia, the primitive atom. All these verses (verses 3-29) are a periphrasis for I existed before creation, consequently before time was. I dwelt in God as a principle which might be communicated in its influences to intellectual beings when formed. |
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.