Where’s Jesus in Proverbs?
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For most Christians today, the book of Proverbs is a lot like a Christian Dear Abby column. “What do I do in this situation, or with this emotion?” This isn’t wrong. Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness, after all (2 Tim. 3:16).
While Proverbs certainly gives us wisdom about day to day life, the early church read it primarily as a book about Wisdom himself—the Lord Jesus. This was especially true of Proverbs 8:22–31, one of the most important texts for the early church’s understanding of Jesus.
So let’s see if we can see what the early church saw in this passage. Because knowing Jesus, the True Wisdom, helps ...