The Tide That Swallows Every Pool of Knowledge
Paul's grand contrast in 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 pivots on a single axis: the transient versus the permanent. Maclaren cuts through centuries of misreading to expose...
This is historical examples on permanence and transience and the eternal perspective, drawing on 1 Corinthians 13:8-13.
Paul's grand contrast in 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 pivots on a single axis: the transient versus the permanent. Maclaren cuts through centuries of misreading to expose the Apostle's true intention. The "now" of verse 13 is not temporal but logical—not "for the present," but "therefore, in consequence." This shifts everything. Three gifts shall cease: prophecies, tongues, knowledge. These were not merely miraculous phenomena of the early church; they represent all our present modes of apprehension and utterance.…
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