OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 8:23

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23

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

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Verse 23. Up. Hebrew “anointed.” Septuagint “he founded.” Christ was appointed to be the foundation, on which we must be built. Saint Athanasius iii. Orat.

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