24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scrip…
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