The Lord Possessed Me.

His eternity he was begotten of the Father, for the Lord possessed him, as his own Son, his beloved Son, laid him in his bosom he was brought forth as the only-begotten of the Father, and this before all worlds, which is most largely insisted upon here. The Word was eternal, and had a being before the world, before the beginning of time and therefore it must follow that it was from eternity. The Lord possessed him in the beginning of his way, of his eternal counsels, for those were before his works. This way indeed had no beginning, for God's purposes in himself are eternal like himself, but God speaks to us in our own language.n - Matthew Henry