Subject: so, you're saying that they go to hell? |
Bible Note: Greetings jmscott2! Proverbs 8:20 is NOT talking about Jesus. Such an interpretation that says that Proverbs is speaking of Jesus in chapter 8 violates the whole of Scripture. There is nothing that leads us to take Proverbs 8 any differently than chapters 1 through 7, and Proverbs chapters 1-9 is speaking of wisdom and is personifying wisdom. If Proverbs 8:20-23 is speaking about Christ, then we must also assume that Christ is a woman crying in the streets (1:20,21) who lives with someone named "Prudence" (8:12)! Proverbs 1-9 makes absolutely no sense at all if one tries to read Christ into the text. Proverbs 8:20-23 is speaking metaphorically of God's eternal wisdom. And this passage is not speaking of Jesus as a created being, since it is speaking of wisdom personified, and NOT Jesus. - Makarios |