ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 13 v11b

CHILDISH WAYS. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: He is not referring to the growing stature that comes with age, nor to any definite period of time, nor even to any secret teaching reserved only for mature adults, when he claims that he left and put away all childishness. Rather he means to say that those who live by the law are childish in the sense that they are subject to fear, like children afraid of ghosts, while those who are obedient to the Word and are completely free are in his opinion mature. CHRIST THE EDUCATOR 1.6.33.

FROM CHILD TO ADULT. BASIL: “When I was a child”—that is, fresh from committing to memory the first elements of the divine Word—“I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But now that I have become a man”—that is, and am hastening to attain the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ—“I have put away the things of a child.” CONCERNING FAITH.

THIS LIFE AND THE NEXT. AMBROSIASTER: In this life we are children, compared with what we shall become in the next life. For everything in this life is imperfect, including knowledge. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

WHAT WE SHALL KNOW. CHRYSOSTOM: Here Paul points out just how great the difference is between what we know now and what we shall know in the future. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 34.2.

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