Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Quand je parlerais les langues des hommes et des anges, si je n'ai pas la charité, je suis un airain qui résonne, ou une cymbale qui retentit.
KJV
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
me sensible sign. Therefore one angel does not speak to another. On the contrary, The Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 13:1 ): "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels." I answer that, The angels speak in a certain way. But, as Gregory says (Moral. ii): "It is fitting that our mind…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Objection 1: It would seem that the inferior angel does not speak to the superior. For on the text ( 1 Cor. 13:1 ), "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels," a gloss remarks that the speech of the angels is an enlightenment whereby the superior enlightens the inferior.…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 87 (Migne)
es meas; et si tradidero corpus meum ita ut ardeam, charitatem autem non habeam, nihil mihi prodest (I Cor. XIII, 1-3) . Hinc iterum monet, dicens: Omnia vestra in charitate fiant (I Cor. XVI, 14) . Et iterum: Alter alterius onera portate, et sic adimplebitis legem Christi (Galat…
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