Verse 23
23. I was set up from everlasting Rather, from eternity, or from unknown ages, I was anointed.
From the beginning Before the earth existed. Anointing was the initiating ceremony into high office among the Hebrews; hence the word is equivalent to appointing, constituting, inaugurating. Wisdom was installed in her high functions from eternity. The other expressions, “from the beginning,” “or ever the earth,” are paraphrastic, exegetical, or qualificative. עולם , ( ‘ holam,) rendered everlasting, is not as definite in its signification as our word eternity. It means indefinite or unknown duration. The terms following it define its meaning here.
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