1 CORINTHIANS 13:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”
For we know in part and we prophesy in part — the partiality (meros, fragment) of our present knowledge and prophecy acknowledges the incompleteness of the age before consummation; we prophesy from fragments, in the mirror dimly, with the limitations of the not-yet.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 13:9
“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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