To recognize that one’s "knowledge is partial ", "vision through a glass, darkly" - is an every day exercise. No matter how clear we could have seen evident objects, we cannot say we have reached a perfect knowledge, that we understood the intention in its plenitude, that we acknowledged the sense. Time, as a component of our existence, brings its correctives in all...
To recognize that one’s "knowledge is partial ", "vision through a glass, darkly" - is an every day exercise. No matter how clear we could have seen evident objects, we cannot say we have reached a perfect knowledge, that we understood the intention in its plenitude, that we acknowledged the sense. Time, as a component of our existence, brings its correctives in all.
What seemed to us to be a point yesterday, will become a straight line today, but already tomorrow will turn out to be a flat figure. After again a certain time it will turn out that all this is just a shadow, and then we shall see the volume, the shape and the color, then we shall realize that the object moves and changes.
So we perceive the world and all which lives inside. God opens to us also gradually Who He is. Although it seems to us today that the knowledge opened to us is finished and completes, it is simply a pale shadow of what we know, even when the glass, darkly will become clearly - when the window will open we shall see the One, Who called us to His wonderful Light; the One, Who is beyond any knowledge, because He is the Truth.
13 The necessity of love is shown, Co1 13:1-3.
The nature and properties, Co1 13:4-7.
The duration of it, Co1 13:8-13
13:12 Now we see - Even the things that surround us. But by means of a glass - Or mirror, which reflects only their imperfect forms, in a dim, faint, obscure manner; so that our thoughts about them are puzzling and intricate, and everything is a kind of riddle to us. But then - We shall see, not a faint reflection, but the objects themselves. Face to face - Distinctly. Now I know in part - Even when God himself reveals things to me, great part of them is still kept under the veil. But then I shall know even as also I am known - In a clear, full, comprehensive manner; in some measure like God, who penetrates the centre of every object, and sees at one glance through my soul and all things.