...was When there was no depths, / was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world....

...pass, ye might believei.' And concerning the creation He says by Solomon, ' Or ever the earth was, when there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when 'there were tio fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, was I brought...

...but, on the contrary, expressly said that God hath a Son. For in one of his writings Wisdom salth ; " Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth."' And what is Christ but the Wisdom of God? Again, in another place in the book of Proverbs, he says...

...beginning, or ever the earth was. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: while as yet he had not made...