1 CORINTHIANS 13:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
But when completeness comes, what is in part disappears — hotan de elthē to teleios (when the perfect/complete comes), to ek merous (the partial) katargeō (is abolished, rendered inactive); the teleios is the eschatological fullness when Christ returns and the partial gifts give way to face-to-face vision.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 13:10
“We know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” It is not therefore knowledge that is done away, but the circumstance that our knowledge is in part. For we shall not only know as much but even a great deal more. But that I may also make it plain by example; now we know that God is every where, but how, we know not. That He made out of things that are not the things that are we know; but of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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