...magnified, and through me 15 sovereigns rule the earth." я То which she adds : " The Lord created me in the beginning of his ways, for his works ; before the world he established me, in the beginning, before he made the earth, before he made the depths, before the mountains...

...applied to Christ's humanity the expressions of the Septuagint of Proverbs VIII. , 22, 23, 24 and 25 ; " The Lord created me \the~\ beginning of His ways for His Works. Before the worlds He founded me, in the beginning before He made the earth, and before He made the deeps, before...

...which the term is applied to the Eternal Father. 53. BUT it is written, say they, in the Proverbs, ' The Lord created me the beginning of His ways, for His Works • ; ' and in the Epistle to the Hebrews the Apostle says, ' Being made so much better than the Angels,...

...passage from Athenagoras : ' The prophetic spirit also is in concord with our argument, for it says, " The Lord created me the beginning of His ways, for His works". Yea, and the very Spirit that was operating in those who made prophetic utterances we affirm to be...

...Wisdom. For Wisdom is said by one of the Divine Band to speak in this manner concerning herself : ' The Lord created me the Beginning of His ways for His works ; from eternity He laid my foundation.' It was fitting and more seemly that all things which came into...

...God and the Power of God". And it follows that it is in Christ's Person that the words are spoken, " The Lord created me the beginning of His ways for His works ". It is not, however, of Christ's flesh that the words are uttered. We will not, moreover, says Eusebius,...

...expressed by him in passages where, drawing upon the verse concerning wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, "The Lord created me the beginning of his ways for his works," 6 he says concerning the Logos that "he whom Solomon calls wisdom was begotten as a beginning before...

...expressed by him in passages where, drawing upon the verse concerning wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, "The Lord created me the beginning of his ways for his works," 6 he says concerning the Logos that "he whom Solomon calls wisdom was begotten as a beginning before...

...to man and the things of God to God" [Matt. 22:21]. (53) They say that it was written in Proverbs, "The Lord created me the beginning of his ways for his works" [Prov. 8:22], and in the Epistle to the Hebrews, the apostle says, "The more having become better than...

...a position generally held since Justin but repudiated by Marcellus; and in section 22. Prov. 8.22. 'The Lord created me the beginning of his ways for his works', which Marcellus and Athanasius applied to the humanity only of Christ, is still applied to the generation...