George Leo Haydock, on Prov 8:22

“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.”

“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 Lapide; 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)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.