Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Compare Psa 90:2. What the Psalmist said of Yahweh, the teacher here asserts of Wisdom; she was before the everlasting hills.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Settled; or, fixed by their roots in the earth.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
25. settledthat is, sunk infoundations.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Before the mountains were settled,…. “Plunged” l, or fixed in the earth; and which was done by the great strength of the Lord, upon their proper bases, Ps 65:6; and which were “aborigine”, or from the beginning of the world, and therefore called the ancient mountains, De 33:15; to be before the mountains is a periphrasis of eternity, and is a phrase expressive of God’s eternity; and being here used of the Son’s, shows his eternity is the same with his Father’s,
Ps 90:2;
before the hills was I brought forth; which is repeated partly to show the importance of it; this being a matter of infinite moment and concern, and deserving of the strictest attention and observation; and partly to show the certainty of it; the eternal generation of Christ being an article of faith most surely to be believed.
l “defixi”, Montanus; “mergerentur”, Tigurine version; “immersi”, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
25. Settled Hebrew, sunk, as a foundation; founded.
Brought forth Same word as in preceding verse.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Ver. 25. Was I brought forth. ] Or, Begotten. Thus wisdom describes her eternity in human words and expressions, for our better apprehension. Which while Arius either knew not, or weighed not, he herehence took occasion to oppose the Deity of our Saviour, and to propagate that damnable error in the Eastern Churches, to the ruin of many souls. This arch-heretic Arius sitting on the stool to ease nature at Constantinople, voided there his entrails. And now Mohammedanism is there as the excrement of Arius.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
settled. Compare Psa 104:8.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Job 15:7, Job 15:8, Job 38:4-11, Psa 90:2, Psa 102:25-28, Heb 1:10
Reciprocal: Pro 6:35 – regard Jon 2:6 – the earth Heb 1:6 – And again