26<\/strong>. highest part<\/em> ] Rather, beginning<\/strong>; R.V. text (“or sum<\/em>,” marg.); i.e. the primary elements out of which other things were subsequently formed. Comp. “all his work which God created<\/em> and made<\/em>,” Gen 2:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n The idea that man is intended as the “chief part of the dust of the earth,” out of which he was formed, has little to commend it.<\/p>\n dust<\/em> ] Lit. dusts<\/strong> (plural), i.e. particles, or clods, of earth. Comp. dusts of gold<\/em>, Job 28:6<\/span>, where R.V. marg. suggests lumps<\/em>.<\/p>\n The highest part of the dust of the world – <\/B>literally, the head of the dusts of the world; an image of either:<\/P> (1) the dry land, habitable, fit for cultivation, as contrasted with the waters of the chaotic deep; or<\/P> (2) man himself. Compare Ecc 3:20<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 26<\/span>. The highest part of the dust of the world<\/B><\/I>] rosh aphroth tebel<\/I>, “the first particle of matter.” The prima materia<\/I>, the primitive atom. All these verses (Pr 8:3-29<\/span>) are a periphrasis for I existed before creation<\/I>; consequently before time<\/I> was. I dwelt in God as a principle which might be communicated in its influences to intellectual beings when formed.<\/P> <\/p>\n The earth, <\/B>i.e. the dry land, called earth<\/I> after it was separated from the waters, Gen 1:10<\/span>. <\/P> The fields; <\/B>the plain and open parts of the earth, distinguished from the mountains and hills, and the valleys enclosed between them. <\/P> The highest part; <\/B>or, the first part<\/I>, or beginning<\/I>; or, the best part<\/I>, Heb. the head<\/I>; that which exceeds other parts in riches or fruitfulness; which he seems to distinguish from the common fields. <\/P> Of the dust of the world; <\/B>of this lower part of the world, which consisteth of dust. <\/P> <\/p>\n 26. fields<\/B>or, “outplaces,” “deserts,” as opposite to (habitable)”world.” <\/P> highest part<\/B>or, “sum,”all particles together,<\/P><\/p>\n While as yet he had not made the earth<\/strong>,…. That is, the Lord, who possessed Wisdom, or Christ, and by whom he was set up; he as yet had not made the earth, when this was done; this shows that the earth had a beginning, contrary to those philosophers who asserted the eternity of it; that Christ was before that was, for it was made by him; and consequently he must be eternal, and was before any man was, since the earth was made before man; and that he was not of the earth, earthy, as was the first man;<\/p>\n nor the fields<\/strong>; the plain parts of the earth, in opposition to the mountains and hills before mentioned; the valleys and meadows that lay between them, full of grass, flowers, and fruits; pleasant to behold, and profitable to be enjoyed; so the word is also rendered Job 5:10<\/span>; and “valleys”, by the Targum here: or the “out parts” m; the extremities of the earth, the two poles of it; the uninhabitable parts of the earth, as distinct from the habitable part of it afterwards mentioned: or all with out it; the ambient and spacious ether;<\/p>\n nor the highest part of the dust of the world<\/strong>: meaning, not the mountains and hills, which are before mentioned, and are the highest part of the earth; but rather “the chief of the dust of the earth” n, as the words may be rendered; these are the metals and minerals within it; the gold, silver, and precious stones, of which we read very early, Ge 2:12<\/span>; or the “beginning”, the first and chief, the “prima materia”, even the dusts of the world, out of which man and all the creatures were made, Ge 2:6<\/span>. Dr. Lister o was of opinion that sand was once the most exterior and general cover of the surface of the whole earth; partly because all our northern mountains are covered with it, more or less, at this day; and partly because of its great hardness, durableness, and unalterable quality; and the higher the mountains be, he says, still the more and coarser the sand is; and if so, this might with propriety be called the highest part of the dust of the earth. But Christ was before any of them, as well as is more excellent than they. Or it may be man is designed, who was made of the dust of the earth; even the first man Adam, so Jarchi, Ge 2:7<\/span>; before whom Christ was: yea, the human nature of Christ himself may be meant, which is fairer than any of the children of men, and the chief of all the individuals of human nature; being without sin, and united to the Son of God, and also the curious workmanship of the Spirit of God. Now Christ, as the Son of God, as the only begotten of the Father, existed before his human nature did, or before he was the Son of man.<\/p>\n m “quae extra sunt”, Tigurine version, Vatablus; “exteriora”, Cocceius, Michaelis. n “caput”, Montanus, Tigurine version; “summam”, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. o In Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 2. p. 452, 453.<\/p>\n (26) The earth.<\/strong>i.e., the cultivated and enclosed part of it.<\/p>\n The fields.<\/strong>The open country.<\/p>\n The highest part of the dust of the world. <\/strong>Literally, the head of the dusts of the fertile earth i.e. <\/em>the heaps of the clods of arable land, or better perhaps, the sum of the atoms of dust. Some refer to Gen. 2:7<\/span>, and interpret the words of man, as formed out of the dust.<\/p>\n 26<\/strong>. <\/strong> The fields <\/strong> , ( hhutsoth,<\/em>) the exterior surface, or ostensible part. <\/p>\n Nor the highest part of the dust of the world <\/strong> , ( rosh <\/em> ‘<\/em> haphroth tebhel,<\/em>) the first dust of the world <\/em> the primeval atoms, seemingly opposed to the hhutsoth <\/em> the observable part. “World,” ( tebhel,<\/em>) a poetic word from , ( balal,<\/em>) one of the meanings of which is to mix, mingle the compounded mass of the earth. The sense of the whole, throwing off the poetic garb, and carrying forward the verb from the preceding verse, appears to be: I was produced while yet he had not made the land, neither the observable exterior nor the interior atoms of the complex globe. Some expositors fancy that the highest part of the dust of the earth <\/em> means man himself, originally formed of the dust of the earth.<\/p>\n The drift of the thought in Pro 8:23-27<\/span>, is seemingly this: We have, first, the proposition, (Pro 8:23<\/span>,) I existed before the earth (as a whole) existed. This is amplified in sundry particulars, first, (Pro 8:24<\/span>,) before the fluid parts, the oceans and streams; second, (Pro 8:25<\/span>,) before the solid parts, especially the more prominent and observable, as the mountains and hills; third, (ver.<\/p>\n 26,) an amplification of this again, descending to other particulars the surface of the land and its internal components the original atoms or particles of the same. Wisdom was before all these.<\/p>\n Pro 8:26<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Highest part<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Sum, <\/em>or first atom. <\/em>Schultens. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Ver. 26. Nor the fields, nor the highest.<\/strong> ] See Trapp on “<\/em> Pro 8:24 “<\/em> <\/p>\n earth. Hebrew ‘eretz. <\/p>\n the highest part: or, the first atoms or particles. <\/p>\n world = the habitable world. Hebrew. tebel (not ‘eretz dearth). The Talmud (Taanith vol. 10A) distinguishes ‘eretz as meaning the land of Israel, from the world as meaning the outside lands. Compare Mat 2:20. <\/p>\n as yet: Gen 1:1-31 <\/p>\n fields: or, open places <\/p>\n highest part: or, chief part <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Job 28:28 – unto man Psa 90:2 – Before Psa 95:5 – hands Isa 40:12 – measured<\/p>\n While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 26. highest part ] Rather, beginning; R.V. text (“or sum,” marg.); i.e. the primary elements out of which other things were subsequently formed. 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