Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 13:12

12 For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am also known .

The Apostle pursues his former Theme, comparing the imperfect state of Believers, as to knowledge in this life, with what shall be in the life that is to come. In this life it is as in a Looking-glass, (where we only see the images and imperfect representations of things) and darkly, in a riddle; it is but a little knowledge that we have, and what we have we get with a great deal of difficulty, but in Heaven we shall have such knowledge as two men have, who see one another face to face, and shall know God fully, in some measure, though not in the same degree, of the fulness and perfections wherein God knoweth us.

Marginal references: 2 Cor. 3.1[illegible: 1 letter]. & 5.7. Phil. 3.12.; Gr. in a riddle.; 1 Joh. 3.2.