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Is the beginning of creation at Revelation 3:14 the same as at Proverbs 8:22?

Is the beginning of creation at Revelation 3:14 the same as at Proverbs 8:22?

What is the 'beginning of creation?'

Is it when :

God first spoke and created the heavens and the earth

God breathed life into Adam

When Adam and Eve started to have children

When Noah began to multiply

When Christ was formed in the womb

When new life was formed through the cross.

In all of the proof texts used in discussions, can we identify which is being referred to, and then correlate what is being said about them?

In Revelation 3:14 Jesus refers to himself as the beginning of God's creation:

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.'" (Revelation 3:14 ESV)

ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς ⸁κτίσεως τοῦ θεοῦ

The speaker in Proverbs 8:22 is identified in strikingly similar terms:

The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago. (Proverbs 8:22 NET)

κύριος ἔκτισέν με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα αὐτοῦ (LXX)

Should Revelation 3:14 be understood as an allusion to Proverbs 8:22? Is Jesus identifying himself with the speaker in Proverbs 8:22?

Is the beginning of creation at Revelation 3:14 the same as at Proverbs 8:22?

In Revelation 3:14 Jesus refers to himself as the beginning of God's creation:

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.'" (Revelation 3:14 ESV)

 

ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς ⸁κτίσεως τοῦ θεοῦ

The speaker in Proverbs 8:22 is identified in strikingly similar terms:

The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago. (Proverbs 8:22 NET)

 

κύριος ἔκτισέν με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα αὐτοῦ (LXX)

Should Revelation 3:14 be understood as an allusion to Proverbs 8:22? Is Jesus identifying himself with the speaker in Proverbs 8:22?

In Revelation 3:14 Jesus refers to himself as the beginning of God's creation:

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.'" (Revelation 3:14 ESV)

ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς ⸁κτίσεως τοῦ θεοῦ

The speaker in Proverbs 8:22 is identified in strikingly similar terms:

The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago. (Proverbs 8:22 NET)

κύριος ἔκτισέν με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα αὐτοῦ (LXX)

Should Revelation 3:14 be understood as an allusion to Proverbs 8:22? Is Jesus identifying himself with the speaker in Proverbs 8:22?