1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Proverbs 8:22 | The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. | Possessed. As Christ was with God, equal to him in eternity, John 1:Septuagint, "created," which many of the Fathers explain of the word incarnate, (see Cornelius a Lapide; Bossuet) or he hath "placed me," (St. Athanasius 3:contra Arian. Eusebius) a pattern of all virtues. The Septuagint generally render kana, "possessed," as Aquila does here. (Calmet) |