Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 13:8

8 Charity never faileth : but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease b; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away .

The Apostle, from another Argument, commendeth the Grace of Love, viz. its never [illegible: 1 letter]ailing, it shall go with us into another World, and have its use and exercise there; where there will be no prophesying, no speaking with divers Tongues, but there the Saints shall love God. And this maketh it evident, that by Charity or Love (before mentioned) the Apostle doth not singly mean bounty or beneficence to those that stand in need of those good things of this life, in which we can help them.

By Knowledge here, some understand the communicating of knowledge to the Church by preaching: others, the means we now have by meditating in, and study of the Scriptures: others better, of the imperfect degrees of our knowledge, or the way of our procuring it; the following verses would incline us to interpret it of the former, though it be true also of the latter.