1 Corinthians 13:11

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). These three points of diff, can hardly be identified with the γλῶσσαι, προφητεία, and γνῶσις respectively; though “spake as a babe” may allude to the childish fondness of the Cor [1994] for γλωσσολαλία (cf 1 Corinthians 14:18 ff.), and “to reason” is the distinction of γνῶσις. On the later-Gr. mid [1995] form ἤμην, see Wr [1996], pp. 95 f. ὅταν with sbj [1997] is the when of future contingency, ὅτε with ind [1998] the when of past or present fact. ὅτε γέγονα ἀνὴρ κατήργηκα κ. τ. λ.: “now that (ex quo) I have become a man (vir factus sum: cf. ἀνὴρ τέλειος in Ephesians 4:12), I have abolished the things of the child”. Such is the κατάργησις which Prophecy and Knowledge (Scripture and Theology), as at present known, must undergo through the approaching “revelation” (1 Corinthians 1:7). “Non dicit, Quum abolevi puerilia, factus sum vir. Hiems non affert ver; sed ver pellit hiemem: sic est in anima et ecclesia” (Bg [1999]). γέγονα and κατήργηκα, in pf. of abiding result; for καταργέω, cf. 1 Corinthians 1:28 and parls.

[1994] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.

[1995] middle voice.

[1996] Winer-Moulton's Grammar of N.T. Greek (8th ed., 1877).

[1997] subjunctive mood.

[1998] indicative mood.

[1999] Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testamenti.