Death And The Greater Life

Cum essem parvulus, quasi parvulus loquebar, quasi parvulus sapiebam, quasi parvulus cogitabam: at ubi factus sum vir, ea quae parvuli erant destruxi. Hoc dicit, quia exeuntes sancti de hoc mundo, plus necesse est inveniant, quam nunc putant, sicut Joannes Apstolus de Salvatore dixit: Tunc videbimus illum, sicut est. In hac ergo vita parvuli sumus ad comparationem futurae vitae; quia sicut vita haec imperfecta est, ita et scientia. Ambrosiaster, In Epistolam Beati Pauli Ad Corinthios Primam, Caput XIII Source: Migne PL 17.253a-b

When I was a little child, I spoke like a little child, I knew as a little child, I thought as a little child, and when I become a man, the things of the child passed away. 1 He says this because those who are holy, going out from this world, will inevitably encounter more than they now think, as the Apostle John said about the Saviour: 'Then we shall see Him as He is.' 2 Therefore in this life we are children compared to the future life, because as this life is flawed, so is its knowledge. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The First Letter of Saint Paul To The Corinthians, Chapter 13 1 1 Cor 13.11 2 1 Jn 3.2