The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Possessed. As Christ was with God, equal to him in eternity, John i. Septuagint, "created "which many of the Fathers explain of the word incarnate, (see Cornelius a Lap ide; Bossuet) or he hath "placed me "(St. Athanasius iii. contra Arian. Eusebius) a pattern of all virtues. The Septuagint generally render kana, "possessed "as Aquila does here. (Calmet)