Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 8:27

27. When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when he set a compass upon the face of the depth :

Not as an idle Spectator, but as a co-worker with my Father.

i. e. Of that great and deep abyss of Water and Earth mixed together, which is called both Earth and Water and the deep, Gen. 1. 2. When he made this lower World round, or in the form of a Globe agreeable to the form of the upper World.

Marginal references: Or, a [illegible: 1 word]