Praying in the Spirit: Consensus on First Corinthians 13 by Non-Pentecostal Scholars
This chart is from part 2 of the sixth chapter of the Praying in the Spirit Series.
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First Corinthians 13—Consensus on Non-Pentecostal Scholars The following non-Pentecostal/charismatic commentators view “the perfect thing” (verse 10) as yet to come; an asterisk indicates that they take the “now” of verse 13 to mean that faith and hope are eternal (the absence of the asterisk may simply mean that they did not comment either way):
Abingdon Bible Commentary*
Alford*
Barnes*
Barrett*
Beacon Bible Commentary
Biblical Illustrator
Blair
Bratcher
Broadman Bible Commentary*
Bruce*
Burdick
Calvin
Cambridge*
Clarke*
Commentary on the Holy Bible*
Conzelmann*
Cook*
Critical and Experimental Commentary*
Edgar
Edwards*
Erdman
Expositions of the Bible*
Expositions of the Scriptures*
Expositor’s Bible (Dos and Findlay)*
Fife
Gaebelein/Mare*
Gaffin
Gangel
Gardiner
Goodbey
Godet*
Goudge*
Grosheide*
Henry
Hitt
Hodge*
Hoekema
Homiletic Commentary
Interpreter’s Bible
Ironside
Jamieson/Fausset/Brown*
Ladd
Lange
Lenski*
Lindsey
Luck
Lutheran Commentary*
MacArthur
Marston
McPheeters
Meyer*
Moffatt*
Morris*
Mueller*
New Bible Commentary*
People’s Bible
Redpath*
Robertson/Plummer*
Scott*
Shank
Simeon
Smith, C. R.
Stanley*
Thayer
Thom*
Vander Lugt
Walvoord*
Weiss
Wesley
Worrell
Wycliffe Bible Commentary*
Copyright © 1987 Robert Graves
