Proverbs 8

Proverbs 8:9

al plaine] In things necessary to salvatiō; in matters of faith, & practise.

wittie inventions] Not toylsome toyes, which are but laborious losse of time, of no use or worth. But to be wise as Serpents; as Eph. V. 15, 16, 17. Deut. IV. 6.

Proverbs 8:15

By me Kings reign] Rom. XIII. 1, 2. by God and his wisdome; by Christ the wisdome of God, who is made unto us wisdome.

Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me] Here is not love lost, John XIV. 21, 23. Ephes. VI. 24. and Christ is wholy lovely, Cant. V. 16. Hag. II. 7. 1 Cor. XVI. 22.

Proverbs 8:20

I lead in the way of righteousnesse] I meddle not with the Mammon of iniquity; lead not to wealth by right or wrong. God forbid that I, or any of mine should take of Satan, from a threed, even to a shoelatchet, lest he should say, I have made you rich.

Proverbs 8:22

possessed me] i. e. Christ. So the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; and so Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion,〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, accordingly: not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, created me; as the LXX. read, and the Arrian would have it; denying thereby the eternal Deity of Christ. And yet that Col. I. 15. the first-borne of every creature, stands well in an Orthodox exposition, with the Catholick Doctrine of Christs eternal Deity. And the words in the verses following, do agree unto Christ; compared with Psal. II. 6. and XC. 2. Matth. III. 17. John I. 14. As moreover the words in the beginning of the next Chapter do agree to him likewise, who is the wisdome of the Father, Col. III. 2. And that Christ is God, see among other places, Heb. I. 3. John I. 3. Col. I. 16, 17.

Proverbs 8:29

foundations of the earth] Yet hangs in the aire, as it were by Geometrie, ver. 30. John I. 1.

Proverbs 8:31

and my delights were] With his Church especially.

Proverbs 8:35

findeth life] John XIV. 6. and chap. X. 28. and chap. I. 12.