Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 13:11
In our present state we are mere infants in point of knowledge, compared to what we shall be hereafter. I put away childish things — Of my own accord, willingly, without trouble.
In our present state we are mere infants in point of knowledge, compared to what we shall be hereafter. I put away childish things — Of my own accord, willingly, without trouble.
Verse 1 Corinthians 13:11. _WHEN I WAS A CHILD_] This future state of blessedness is as far beyond the utmost perfection that can be attained in this world, as our adult state of Christianity is abov...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD - The idea here is, that the knowledge which we now have, compared with that which we shall have in heaven, is like that which is possessed in infancy compared with that we have in...
3. THE NEED AND SUPERIORITY OF LOVE. CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1 .) 2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4 .) 3. Love never faileth; its Pe...
1 CORINTHIANS 13. ALL GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT LOVE, WHICH IS SUPREME AND INCOMPARABLE. The chapter falls into three divisions: (_a)_ superlative gifts and costliest surrenders are v...
THE HYMN OF LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) 13 I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have not love, I am become no better than echoing brass or a clanging cymbal. I may have the gi...
CHILD. App-108. THOUGHT. reasoned. Greek. _logizomai._ PUT AWAY. did away with. Greek. _katargeo,_ as in verses: 1 Corinthians 13:8; 1 Corinthians 13:10. CHILDISH THINGS. the things of. child....
1 Corinthians 12:31 Ch. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Excellencies of Love _and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way_ Literally, AND FURTHERMORE I SHEW YOU AN EMINENTLY EXCELLENT WAY, i.e. the way of l...
_I thought as a child_ Better as margin, I REASONED. The same Greek word is used here as in 1 Corinthians 13:5, - _thinketh_no evil." See note there. _when I became a man, I put away childish things_...
1 Corinthians 12:31 to 1 Corinthians 13:13. THE EXCELLENCIES OF LOVE ΚΑῚ ἜΤΙ ΚΑΘ' ὙΠΕΡΒΟΛῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν ΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ. AND MOREOVER I SHEW YOU A WAY OF SUPERLATIVE EXCELLENCE. This, St Paul would have us un...
_THE PERMANENCE OF LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:11-13:_ The miraculous spiritual gifts were not signs of maturity in Christ. Those gifts were only a means by which that maturity was pursued. The miraculous s...
ΉΜΗΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΝΉΠΙΟΣ (G3516) дитя, ребенок, младенец. Praed. _пот._ ΈΛΆΛΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G3956) говорить. Обыденный _impf._, "я имел обыкновение говорить...
DISCOURSE: 1987 THE SAINTS’ VIEWS IN HEAVEN 1 Corinthians 13:9. We know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD— "The future shall indeed be like a state of adult age, when compared with that of feeble infancy; just as _when I was a child, I spake as a child_ would naturally do, a few imperfe...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 13:8-12. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Giftedness is Temporary, Love is Eternal (1 Corinthians 13:8-13) 8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowle...
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. WHEN I WAS A CHILD (1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 14:...
11 The time came when the apostle admonished and taught in order that he should present every man _ mature _ in Christ (Col_1:28). Epaphras struggled in prayers that they should stand mature and compl...
13:11 felt (f-12) What the mind or thoughts are upon. As Matthew 16:23 ; Romans 8:5 ; Philippians 3:19 ; Colossians 3:2 ....
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity_ In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with their t...
LOVE IS ETERNAL. Other gifts, knowledge, prophecy, tongues serve but a temporary purpose. 'They are only means towards an end. Love remains the completion and perfection of our human being' (F. W. Rob...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD] an illustration of 1 Corinthians 13:10. UNDERSTOOD] RV 'felt.'...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 LOVE 13:1-13 1. THE ABSENCE OF LOVE 13:1-3 V1 Suppose that I speak in the languages of people and *angels. If I have no love, I am onl...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD. — The natural childhood and manhood of this life are analogous to the spiritual childhood of this life and the spiritual manhood of the life to come. I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THO...
CHAPTER 19 NO GIFT LIKE LOVE THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the flower in the very handling whic...
illustrates the abolition of the partial by the perfect through the transition from _the child to the man_ in speech (ἐλάουν), in disposition and aim (ἐφρόνουν), and in mental activity (ἐλογιζόμην). T...
§ 43. THE QUALITIES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. The previous vv. have justified the καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν of 1 Corinthians 12:31. The loftiest human faculties of man are seen to be frustrate without love; by its aid...
THE ONE ESSENTIAL FOR ALL 1 Corinthians 13:1 With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had caught a glimpse of t...
The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it, a...
The Permanence of Love There is a strong parallel between 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 and Ephesians 4:7-15. Thus, it seems the "perfect" is the "unity of the faith." The parts of verse 9 were used to confir...
(5) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (5) He sets forth that which he said by an excellent sim...
When I was a child. I, like you, formerly judged of the goodness and excellency of these spiritual gifts by the advantages the procured; but after the Almighty had bestowed upon me his particular ligh...
II. THE WAY PAR EXCELLENCE. CHAP. 13. This chapter has been called a hymn. In tone indeed it is truly lyrical, especially in the first verses. Charity is poetically personified. In this respect the pa...
1 Corinthians 13:8-13 . The absolute duration of charity is developed in these last verses: first, in opposition to gifts, then even in contrast to the other two fundamental virtues, faith and hope....
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child; when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Man's natural growth is a figure of that of the Church; both follow...
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we proph...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
11._When I was a child _He illustrates what he had said, by a similitude. For there are many things that are suitable to children, which are afterwards done away on arriving at maturity. For example,...
Nevertheless there was something more excellent than all gifts. They were the manifestations of the power of God and of the mysteries of His wisdom; love, that of His nature itself. They might speak w...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD I SPAKE AS A CHILD,.... That cannot speak plain, aims at words rather than expresses them, delivers them in a lisping or stammering manner: hereby the apostle illustrates the then p...
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Ver. 11. _When I was a child_] Adrian VI, before he became...
1 Cor. 13:8-12. "Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in...
_When I was a child_, &c. The difference between our present and future conceptions of spiritual things may be illustrated by the knowledge of a child compared to that of a man. For in our present sta...
A CHILD-A MAN; as the conceptions and speech of a lisping infant differ from those of an educated and full-grown man, so do our highest attainments in this life differ from what they will be in the li...
The eternal duration of love:...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPAKE AS A CHILD, I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD; BUT WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS....
Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses 4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence. And in the first section, verse I deals with what I speak;...
THOUGHT: Or, reasoned...
WHEN. WAS. CHILD,. SPAKE AS. CHILD,. FELT AS. CHILD,. THOUGHT AS. CHILD: NOW THAT. AM BECOME. MAN,. HAVE PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS. 'I spake..I felt..I thought' -the behavior of. child is appropriate...
8-13 Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which the Corinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance. It is a grace, lasting as eternity. The present state is a state of childhoo...
The apostle compareth the state of believers in this life, compared with their state in another life, to the state of a child, compared to that of a man. Look, as one, when he is a child, knoweth thin...
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things....
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I And the expression, "When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spoke as a child,"[70] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I "When I became a man,...
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'When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.' So we must recognise the inadequacy of prophecy and of o...
LOVE WILL INDEED OUTLIVE ALL SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND IS EVEN GREATER THAN FAITH AND HOPE (13:8B-13). For then we are brought back to how such love compares with the subject in hand. Prophecies, tongues...
LOVE MUST LIE AT THE ROOT OF ALL WE DO ESPECIALLY OUR MINISTRY TO THE CHURCH (13:1-13). Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts, if they are to be truly spiritual. And in s...
1 Corinthians 13:11. WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPAKE AS A CHILD prattling; I FELT AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT (or ‘reasoned') AS A CHILD. My thoughts were all a child's thoughts, my notions of persons and thing...
A CHILD (νηπιος). See on 1 Corinthians 3:1 for νηπιος in contrast with τελειος (adult).I SPAKE (ελαλουν). Imperfect active, I used to talk.I FELT (εφρονουν). Imperfect active, I used to think....
1 Corinthians 13:11 Christian Manhood. I. Consider our love of the pleasures of life. I am willing to allow that there is an innocent love of the world, innocent in itself. God made the world, and ha...
1 Corinthians 13:1. _Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._ If there be no love to God, and no love to man,...
CONTENTS: Love, the supreme gift of the Spirit, and its governing power over other gifts. CHARACTERS: Paul. CONCLUSION: Love alone can give value to any service rendered in Christ's name, and it is...
The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments ar...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD. This verse illustrates the partial disappearing as the perfect comes. As a child, his thinking, feelings, and speech were all childishly imperfect. With manhood, his need or use of...
_When I was a child, I spake,… understood, … thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things._ CHILDHOOD 1. This is the only reference which the apostle makes to his childhood...
_Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._ CHARITY Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of character....
CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He points out that of all gifts and graces, charity is the first, and that without charity no gift or virtue is of any use. II. He enumerates (ver. 4) the sixt...
_When I was a child_, that is, one who is now beginning to say, think, plan, attempt, study, play, and do anything, as our children are wont to do. _I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thou...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1. THESE NEED BE VERY FEW; the language of the chapter is of the simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full. 2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on LOVE. 3. The “I” is not s...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1 _The supremely excellent way of Christian love. _This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had received in all...
Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. The thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians actually begins with chapter 12. Paul was talking in chapter 12 about the various gifts of the Holy Spiri...
1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 3:2; Ecclesiastes 11:10;...
A child. See on ch. 1 Corinthians 3:1, and 1 Corinthians 2:6. I understood [ε φ ρ ο ν ο υ ν]. See on Romans 8:5. The kindred noun frenev occurs only once in the New Testament, ch. 14 20, where also it...
THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY 1 Corinthians 13:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16. Another great love verse is Romans 5:8. The whole Bible is, however, one st...
Here the apostle compares the Christian's imperfect state of knowledge and holiness in this life to. state of childhood; his perfect state of holiness and happiness in heaven to. state of manhood. As....