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My paraphrase:
Where there is personal prophecy or Biblical prophecy, these things will cease one day. Where there is the tongues of men and the tongues of angels, they will be stilled one day. Where there is all knowledge, it will pass away one day.
Paul began in 1 Cor 13 with talking about the langauges of men and of angels, then he wrote "where there is tongues, they will be stilled".
Are the langauges of men stilled? No! Is the language that angels speak in stilled? Of course not. How else would they communicate?
Paul also began in the same chapter of Corinthians with putting the gift of knowledge and the gift of prophecy side by side one another. In continues to write "for we know in part, and we prophesy in part". We see a theme here.
Has knowledge, which is in part, has it passed away? Indeed it hasn't! Has prophecy (personal or Biblical), which is like knowledge in part, has that passed away too? Well if Biblical prophecy has passed away, then where are we Today? There is still Biblical prophesy to be fulfilled! In the same mannor, personal prophecy cannot have passed away either. The word for personal and Biblical in the Greek and Aramaic (the original text of the Bible) is the same word.
Notice in that one verse, in that one sentence in 1 Cor 13:8 there are semicolons in the English Bible between thoughts? Here: Prophecy ; tongues ; knowledge. This means each thought is connected to each other as one part. Just as Proverbs 3:5-6, between verses 5 and 6 there is a semicolon, but the thought/written word is not seperated, it's connected as one thing.
We still have knowledge, we still have tongues, then this would mean in context of the Scripture that we still have prophecy.
I hope I explained this well.
Where there is personal prophecy or Biblical prophecy, these things will cease one day. Where there is the tongues of men and the tongues of angels, they will be stilled one day. Where there is all knowledge, it will pass away one day.
Paul began in 1 Cor 13 with talking about the langauges of men and of angels, then he wrote "where there is tongues, they will be stilled".
Are the langauges of men stilled? No! Is the language that angels speak in stilled? Of course not. How else would they communicate?
Paul also began in the same chapter of Corinthians with putting the gift of knowledge and the gift of prophecy side by side one another. In continues to write "for we know in part, and we prophesy in part". We see a theme here.
Has knowledge, which is in part, has it passed away? Indeed it hasn't! Has prophecy (personal or Biblical), which is like knowledge in part, has that passed away too? Well if Biblical prophecy has passed away, then where are we Today? There is still Biblical prophesy to be fulfilled! In the same mannor, personal prophecy cannot have passed away either. The word for personal and Biblical in the Greek and Aramaic (the original text of the Bible) is the same word.
Notice in that one verse, in that one sentence in 1 Cor 13:8 there are semicolons in the English Bible between thoughts? Here: Prophecy ; tongues ; knowledge. This means each thought is connected to each other as one part. Just as Proverbs 3:5-6, between verses 5 and 6 there is a semicolon, but the thought/written word is not seperated, it's connected as one thing.
We still have knowledge, we still have tongues, then this would mean in context of the Scripture that we still have prophecy.
I hope I explained this well.