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The Incarnate Wisdom

"The LORD possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was" (Proverbs 8:22-23).

The Book of Proverbs repeatedly extols the virtues of true wisdom, founded on the fear of the Lord. In the eighth chapter, however, beginning at verse 22, the theme changes, retreating far back in time to creation itself, and even before. The statements in the next ten verses, especially, must be of an actual divine Person. From the New Testament perspective, especially with John 1:1-14 as the definitive exposition, it becomes clear that the divine wisdom of Proverbs 8:22-31 is none other than the incarnate word of John's prologue.

The Lord Jesus Christ, indeed, fits perfectly, all the statements in this particular section of Proverbs, which then gives marvelous new insight into the events of creation and the divine fellowship in the Godhead before the creation. Note that in these first two verses, the Lord's "ways" were prior to His "works," and that He "possessed" His Son "from everlasting." This is the profound doctrine of "eternal generations," whereby the Son is "brought forth" continually from the Father, forever manifesting Him in His creation.

The New Testament makes it plain that Jesus Christ is, indeed, the incarnate wisdom of God. He is the "Word" by whom all things were made (John 1:1-3). He is "the truth" (John 14:6) and "the light" (John 8:12) by whom alone men can come to God and follow Him. He is called "the power of God, and the wisdom of God" in I Corinthians 1:24, and He called Himself "the wisdom of God" in Luke 11:49. All of the vaunted knowledge of the world's thinkers and scientists is empty and futile apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, the living word of God, for in Him alone are found "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3). HMM

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