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1. Pro 8:26 – “While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.”
- While as yet he had not made the earth,
- Wisdom is speaking (Pro 8:1, 12).
- She is continuing to explain how she was present before God created the earth including the oceans (Pro 8:24) and mountains (Pro 8:25).
iii. Before God made the earth He possessed wisdom (Pro 8:22), and exalted it (Pro 8:23).
- Since God used wisdom to create the earth (Pro 3:19), it follows that she was with him while as yet he had not made the earth.
- nor the fields,
- The fields were created on the third day of creation (Gen 1:11-13).
- God used wisdom to design grass and fruit trees of the field.
iii. In His wisdom God created the fields to feed and sustain man (Ecc 5:9; Deut 20:19).
- nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
- God’s wisdom was brought forth before He created the highest mountains on earth.
- Even the very dust of the earth from the deepest valleys to the tops of the highest mountains was created by God in His infinite wisdom.
iii. Dust n. – 1. a. Earth or other solid matter in a minute and fine state of subdivision, so that the particles are small and light enough to be easily raised and carried in a cloud by the wind; any substance comminuted or pulverized; powder.
- From that dust, God in his infinite wisdom created man (Gen 2:7).