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Abideth (menei). Singular, agreeing in number with pistis (faith), first in list.
The greatest of these (meizōn toutōn). Predicative adjective and so no article. The form of meizōn is comparative, but it is used as superlative, for the superlative form megistos had become rare in the Koiné[28928]š (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 667ff.). See this idiom in Mat 11:11; Mat 18:1; Mat 23:11. The other gifts pass away, but these abide forever. Love is necessary for both faith and hope. Does not love keep on growing? It is quite worth while to call attention to Henry Drummond’s famous sermon The Greatest Thing in the World and to Dr. J.D. Jones’s able book The Greatest of These. Greatest, Dr. Jones holds, because love is an attribute of God.