1 CORINTHIANS 13:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me — Paul uses the universal experience of growing up (nepios/tēlikos) to illustrate the transition from the church's infancy (pneumatika gifts) to maturity (love); childhood ways are not evil but are transcended by adulthood.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 13:11
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child; but now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.” And by another example too he manifests the same thing again, saying,
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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