1 Corinthians 13:11 (WEB)
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
“I was afraid, therefore, to believe Him to be born in the flesh, lest I should be compelled to believe Him contaminated by the flesh.” — editor's note: The dualistic belief of the Manichæan ever led him to contend that Christ only appeared in a resemblance of flesh, and did not touch its substance so as to be…
Read the whole comment“For he saith, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; when I became a man, I put away childish things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 11. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 11, 12.
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Tertullian
““When I was a child,” he says, “as a child I spake, as a child I understood; but when I became a man, those (things) which had been the child’s I abandoned:” so truly did he turn away from his early opinions: nor did he sin by becoming an emulator not of ancestral but of Christian traditions, wishing even the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 11, one clause omitted.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.31On the Making of Man
“…when he says, “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”; not that the soul which arises in the man is different from that which we know to be in the boy, and the childish intellect fails while the manly intellect…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 11.
Read the whole comment “For this teaching we have the authority of God’s own Apostle, who announces a subduing and a ceasing of all other activities, even for the good, which are within us, and finds no limit for love alone.” — editor's note: καταστολὴν. Cf. 1 Cor. xiii. 8–13.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And the expression, “When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child,” points out his mode of life according to the law, according to which, thinking childish things, he persecuted, and speaking childish things he blasphemed the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 11. [A text much misused by the heretical gnostics whom Clement confutes.]
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Cross-references · 13
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Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.31 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.31 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40.
Cited together in Confessions V.10.
Cited together in Confessions V.10.
Cited together in Confessions V.10.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.31.
Cited together in Confessions V.10.