A note on 1 Cor 13 (verse, Roman, Corinthians)

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Two writers at about the time of Paul, Cicero (De Amicitia 33) and Seneca (Epistle 4) - both talk about exchanging boyish clothing for the toga of the man in the context of friendship. The immature boys are prone to follies that adults should not engage in - primarily this consists of engaging in friendship only for its benefits and not to practice friendship. These references are certainly parallel to 1 Cor. 13.


Cicero:

Originally Posted by De Amicitia 33

10. Laelius. Well, then, my good friends, listen to some conversations about friendship which very frequently passed between Scipio and myself. I must begin by telling you, however, that he used to say that the most difficult thing in the world was for a friendship to remain unimpaired to the end of life. So many things might intervene: conflicting interests; differences of opinion in politics; frequent changes in character, owing sometimes to misfortunes, sometimes to advancing years. He used to illustrate these facts from the analogy of boyhood, since the warmest affections between boys are often laid aside with the boyish toga; and even if they did manage to keep them up to adolescence, they were sometimes broken by a rivalry in courtship, or for some other advantage to which their mutual claims were not compatible. Even if the friendship was prolonged beyond that time, yet it frequently received a rude shock should the two happen to be competitors for office. For while the most fatal blow to friendship in the majority of cases was the lust of gold, in the case of the best men it was a rivalry for office and reputation, by which it had often happened that the most violent enmity had arisen between the closest friends.

Seneca:

Originally Posted by Epistle 4

You remember, of course, what joy you felt when you laid aside the garments of boyhood and donned the man's toga, and were escorted into the forum; nevertheless, you may look for still greater joy when you have laid aside the mind of boyhood and when wisdom has enrolled you amoung men. For it is not boyhood that still stays with us, but something worse, - boyishness. And this condition is all the more seirous because we posess the authority of old age, together with the follies of boyhood, yea, even the follies of infancy. Boys fear trifles, children fear shadows, we fear both.

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Der I forgot to list the verse in Corinthians:

ESV 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

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