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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Love never faileth." Seest thou when he put the crown on the arch, and what of all things is peculiar to this gift? For what is, "faileth not?" it is not severed, is not dissolved by endurance. For it puts up with everything: since happen what will, he that loves never can hate. This then is the greatest of its excellencies. Such a person was Paul. Wherefore also he said, "If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh;" and he continued hoping. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, it never deviates from its goal, but brings everything to fulfillment; or, what is even better, it is not interrupted, not cut short, never ceases, but continues even in the age to come, when everything else will be abolished, as the apostle will say further on. Having enumerated the offspring of love, he again exalts it in another manner, namely, he says that both prophecy and tongues will cease, but love will abide constantly and eternally. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Use your knowledge as a sort of tool to build the edifice of charity, which remains forever, even when "knowledge passes away." For knowledge which is used to promote love is useful, but in itself and separated from love it turns out to be not only useless but even harmful.
Thomas Aquinas
After showing that charity excels the other gifts of the Holy Spirit by reason of need and fruitfulness, the Apostle now shows the excellence of charity over the other gifts in regard to permanence. In regard to this he does three things: first, he mentions the difference between charity and other gifts of the Holy Spirit as to permanence; secondly, he proves what he had said; thirdly, he draws the intended conclusion (v. 13). …
Bonaventure
From the foregoing it is gathered that, although from the primary division the light descending from above is fourfold, there are nevertheless six differences of it: namely, the light of sacred Scripture, the light of sensitive cognition, the light of mechanical art, the light of rational philosophy, the light of natural philosophy, and the light of moral philosophy. …
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