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.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Lorsque j'étais enfant, je parlais comme un enfant, je pensais comme un enfant, je raisonnais comme un enfant; lorsque je suis devenu homme, j'ai fait disparaître ce qui était de l'enfant.
KJV
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
case. Therefore Paul when in rapture saw not the essence of God. Objection 3: Further, according to 1 Cor. 13:10-12 , faith and hope are incompatible with the vision of the Divine essence. But Paul when in this state had faith and hope. Therefore he saw not the essence of God. Ob…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
to the perfect age, and being able to perform the perfect actions of a man: hence the Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 13:11 ): "When I became a man, I put away the things of a child." And thence it is that besides the movement of generation whereby man receives life of the body, there is t…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 125 (Migne)
m facie ad faciem. [Col. 0945A] Nunc cognosco ex parte, tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum (I Cor. XIII, 11) . Si ergo in hac vita, ubi hominum mirabilium prophetia ita comparanda est illi vitae quasi parvuli ad juvenem, vidit tamen Elisaeus accipientem sibi munera servu…
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