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Pro_3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Ver. 19. The Lord by wisdom.] By his essential Wisdom, by his Eternal Word; {Pro_8:30} the Lord Christ, who is "the beginning of the creation of God." {Rev_3:14} {See Trapp on "Joh_1:3"} "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," {Gen_1:1} that is, in his Son, as some interpret it. {Heb_1:2 Col_1:16} This interpretation is grounded upon the Jerusalem Targum, who translates that, {Gen_1:1} bechochmatha, in sapientia. So doth Augustine and others; and for confirmation they bring Joh_8:25; but that is a mistake, as Beza shows in his Annotations there.
He established the heavens.] Heb., He aptly and trimly framed them in that comeliness that we now see. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork." {Psa_19:1} Upon the third heaven he hath bestowed a great deal of curious skill and cunning workmanship. { ôå÷íéôçò , Heb_11:10} But of that no natural knowledge can be had, nor any help by human arts, geometry, optics, &c.; for it neither is aspectable nor moveable. The visible heavens are (for the many varieties therein, and the wonderful motion of the several spheres) fitly called Kïóìïò . {a} The original word here used, ratione coniugationis plus aliquid significat quam paravit, vel stabilivit. "Conen," Mirum in modum disposuit; he hath cunningly contrived. And hence haply our ancient English word koning, and by contraction king, coming of the verb con, which signifies (as Becanus noteth) possum, scio, audeo - I can, I know, I dare do it.
{a} Coelum maxime eo nomine intelligunt Graeci. - Mercer.