Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 13:11

11 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 .

The Apostle compareth the state of Believers in this life, compared with their state in another life, to the state of a child, compared with that of a man. Look as one, when he is a child, knoweth things imperfectly, and discourseth of them in the stile, and according to the knowledge of a child: But when he is grown up, he discourseth of them at another rate, according to the degree of knowledge which he hath acquired by instruction of others, or his own experience and observation. So it is with all of us, in this life we, like children, have a poor, low, imperfect knowledge of spiritual things, and accordingly discourse of them: But when we come to Heaven, we shall know them, and discourse of them in a more perfect manner.

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