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| 1Co 13:9 | For we know only in p, and we prophesy only in p; |
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13.1–13 : Praising love
in contrast with the overvaluation of spiritual gifts that produces divisiveness. Paul's sudden shift into the high‐blown style of formal, artful praise of a virtue may be a parody of those who are fond of rhetoric.
1–3 :
Paul first mockingly exaggerates both the Corinthians' favorite spiritual gifts along with his own key values, then suddenly deflates them. On tongues (v. 1 ), see 14.1–33n.
4–7 :
The positive qualities of love are the opposite of the Corinthians' behavior presented elsewhere in the letter.
8–13 :
In these comparisons, Paul becomes more rhapsodic, no longer ironic, glorifying the qualities he most values—while still denigrating the Corinthians' most valued spiritual gifts. Against their sense of present transcendence, Paul emphasizes future fulfillment.
12 :
To now we see in a mirror, dimly, compare Wisdom as “a spotless mirror of the working of God” in Wis 7.25–26 .