rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
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...
Commenting on Proverbs 8:22-31
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth,.... In that part of the earth which is habitable; in filling it with inhabitants; in preserving and sustaining it in being, and the inhabitants of it; in governing it, and ordering all things in it for the best, according to his infinite wisdom and the counsel of his will; in bestowing the bounties of his providence, and...
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men. (n) By which is declared that the work of the creation was no pain, but a solace to the wisdom of God. (o) By earth he means men, which is the work of God in whom wisdom took pleasure: in that as for man's sake the divine wisdom...