Bible Commentaries
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
1 Corinthians 13
Though = If. App-118.
speak. App-121.
men. App-123.
charity = love. App-135.
sounding. Greek. echeo. Only here and Luke 21:25 (roaring).
brass. Greek. chalkos. See Matthew 10:9. Revelation 18:12. Elsewhere, Mark 6:8; Mark 12:41; (money).
tinkling. Greek. alalazo. Only here and Mark 5:38. An onomatopoeic word. Frequent in the Septuagint of the battle shout; Joshua 6:20. Judges 15:14. 1 Samuel 17:20, 1 Samuel 17:52; &c.
cymbal. Greek. kumbalon. Only here, but frequent in the Septuagint.
understand = know. App-132.
mysteries. App-193.
knowledge. App-132.
faith. App-150.
remove. Greek. methistemi. See Acts 13:22.
nothing. Greek. oudeis.
bestow = give away in doles. Greek. psomizo. Only here and Romans 12:20. Compare "sop", John 13:26.
goods = the things belonging (huparcho, Luke 9:48) to me.
give = deliver up. Greek. paradidomi. See John 19:30.
to be = in order that (Greek. hina) it may be.
it profiteth, &c. = I am nothing profited.
is kind. Greek. chresteuomai. Only here. Compare App-184. Note the Figure of speech Asyndeton in these verses: 1 Corinthians 13:13, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
envieth. Greek. zeloo. See Acts 7:9.
vaunteth. Greek. perpereuomai. Only here.
is . . . puffed up. See 1 Corinthians 4:6.
Doth . . . behave, &c. Greek. aschemoneo. Only here and 1 Corinthians 7:36.
is . . . easily provoked = is . . . roused to anger. Greek. paroxunomai Only here and Acts 17:16. There is no word for "easily". The statement is absolute.
thinketh no evil = reckons not (Greek. ou) the evil done to it).
evil. App-128.
in = upon, or at. App-104.
iniquity = unrighteousness. App-128.
rejoiceth in the truth = rejoiceth with (as in 1 Corinthians 12:26) the truth, i.e. as it wins its way, truth being personified.
Beareth. Greek. stego. See 1 Corinthians 9:12. Here it means "is forbearing in all provocations".
believeth. App-150.
never. Greek. oudepote.
faileth. All the texts read "falleth".
whether. Greek. eite.
fail = be brought to nought. Greek. katargeo. See Romans 3:3.
vanish away. Same as "fail".
child. App-108.
thought = reasoned. Greek. logizomai.
put away = did away with. Greek. katargeo, as in verses: 1 Corinthians 13:8, 1 Corinthians 13:10.
childish things = the things of a child.
see. App-133.
through. App-104. 1 Corinthians 13:1.
glass = mirror. Greek. esoptron. Only here and James 1:23.
darkly. Literally in (Greek. en) a riddle. Greek. ainigma. Only here in N.T. In the Septuagint, Numbers 12:8. 1 Kings 10:1. Proverbs 13:1, Proverbs 13:6, &c.
know = fully know. App-132.
even as, &c. = even as I was fully known also.
abideth. Greek. meno. See p. 1511.
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