King James Version
What Does Proverbs 8:2 Mean?
“She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.”
Context
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(2) **She standeth in the top of high places.—***i.e., *in the higher parts of the city, where her voice will best be heard.
**By** **the way **. . .—She goes everywhere where she may find the greatest concourse of people, “God not being willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2Peter 3:9). So the apostles made large centres of population such as Antioch, Ephesus, or Corinth, the headquarters of their missionary enterprise.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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