John Trapp on Proverbs 8:30

Verſ. 30. Then I was by him] Accurſed then for ever bee that blaſphemous aſſertion of the Arrians, [non-Latin text not transcribed], There was a time when hee was not. This Scripture ſo much abuſed by them, makes utterly againſt them. But Hereticks pervert the Scriptures, ſaith St. Peter, 2 Pet. 3.15. A metaphor from thoſe who put a man upon the rack, and make him ſpeak that which hee never thought. Tertullian calls Marcion the Heretick, Mus Ponticus, becauſe of his arroding and gnawing the Scripture, to make it ſerviceable to his errours.

[non-Latin text not transcribed]. As one brought up with him] Or, as a nouriſher; that is, as a maintainer and upholder of that his excellent workmanſhip of Creation, Heb. 1.3. The Septuagint render it, I was with him making all fine and trim, Eram apud cum aptans; ſo Irenaeus.

More pueri qui alatur, & riſum captans ac concilians. Mercer. Rejoycing alwayes] Or, laughing with him. This (as the very Jews are forced to confeſs) doth notably ſet forth that unſpeakable ſweetneſs and joy that the bleſſed God findeth in the apprehenſion of his own wiſdome, which (ſay they) is one and the ſame with God himſelf.