Proverbs 8:31 KJV
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Scofield's Notes from Proverbs 8:22;
“That wisdom is more than the personification of an attribute of God, or of the will of God as best for man, but is a distinct adumbration of Christ, is sure to the devout mind. (Pro 8:22-36); (Joh 1:1-3); (Col 1:17) can refer to nothing less than the Eternal Son of God. “
The word adumbration means a shadow or figure. Christians recognize that the wisdom in Proverbs speaks of Jesus Christ and teaches us much concerning Him. With that in mind I come to verse 31 and the phrase, "....my delights were with the sons of men."
That Jesus delights in men is clearing seen in God's Word. John Gill states it thus, "expresses the exceeding great delight and pleasure which Christ took in his people from everlasting; his love was then a love of the utmost complacency and delight, and continued, notwithstanding their fall in Adam, though by nature children of wrath, and transgressors from the womb. This appears
by his early engagement as a surety for them;
by his espousing their persons and their cause;
by assuming their nature in time;
by suffering and dying in their room and stead, and working out salvation for them;
by bearing them on his heart in heaven, and there interceding for them;
by taking them out of a state of nature;
by visiting them with his grace and presence; and
by bringing them, through a variety of trials, safe to his kingdom and glory."
Thank God that He delights in us "notwithstanding our fall in Adam."
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Scofield's Notes from Proverbs 8:22;
“That wisdom is more than the personification of an attribute of God, or of the will of God as best for man, but is a distinct adumbration of Christ, is sure to the devout mind. (Pro 8:22-36); (Joh 1:1-3); (Col 1:17) can refer to nothing less than the Eternal Son of God. “
The word adumbration means a shadow or figure. Christians recognize that the wisdom in Proverbs speaks of Jesus Christ and teaches us much concerning Him. With that in mind I come to verse 31 and the phrase, "....my delights were with the sons of men."
That Jesus delights in men is clearing seen in God's Word. John Gill states it thus, "expresses the exceeding great delight and pleasure which Christ took in his people from everlasting; his love was then a love of the utmost complacency and delight, and continued, notwithstanding their fall in Adam, though by nature children of wrath, and transgressors from the womb. This appears
by his early engagement as a surety for them;
by his espousing their persons and their cause;
by assuming their nature in time;
by suffering and dying in their room and stead, and working out salvation for them;
by bearing them on his heart in heaven, and there interceding for them;
by taking them out of a state of nature;
by visiting them with his grace and presence; and
by bringing them, through a variety of trials, safe to his kingdom and glory."
Thank God that He delights in us "notwithstanding our fall in Adam."
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