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13. νυνὶ δὲ μένει. All these will remain in the life to come. Faith, the vision of the unseen (Heb 11:1), with its consequent trust in God; hope, which even in fruition remains as the desire of its continuance; and love, as the necessary condition of our dwelling in God and God in us. See note on ch. 1Co 12:31. ‘Now’ is not to be understood of time, but as equivalent to ‘so,’ at the conclusion of the argument.
μείζων. ‘Because faith and hope are our own; love is diffused among others.’ Calvin. According to Winer, Gr. Gram. § 35, the passage is to be rendered ‘among these love is the greater.’
ἡ ἀγάπη. Faith is no more than the means whereby we unite ourselves to God; hope concerns itself with what we expect from Him. But love is a part of God Himself, 1Jn 4:16. Compare with this chapter Clement’s panegyric on love in ch. 49 of his Epistle to the Corinthian Church, written shortly after St Paul’s death. Had this chapter never been written, Clement’s praise of love would have been more famous than it is.