1 Coríntios 13
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
1 Coríntios 13:3
Giving one's body to be burned is not a license to commit suicide but a command not to resist suffering if the alternative is being forced to do wrong. Letter , To Donatus.
1 Coríntios 13:4
The reason why love does not envy is because it is not puffed up. For where puffing up precedes, envy follows, because pride is the mother of envy. — LETTER 22, To Honoratus
1 Coríntios 13:7
For what is it to hear about oneself from you but to know oneself? Who, then, can know himself and say "It is false," unless he himself lies? But because "charity believes all things," certainly among those whom it makes one, in intimate union with each other, I, also, O Lord, do even confess to you in such a way that men may hear, though I cannot prove to them the things I confess are true. But those whose ears charity opens to me, they believe.
1 Coríntios 13:7
The greater the love of God that the saints possess, the more they endure all things for him. — On Patience 17
1 Coríntios 13:8
Use your knowledge as a sort of tool to build the edifice of charity, which remains forever, even when "knowledge passes away." For knowledge which is used to promote love is useful, but in itself and separated from love it turns out to be not only useless but even harmful. — LETTER 55
1 Coríntios 13:9
Our knowledge in this life remains imperfect, but it is reliable within its limits. Believers trust the witness of their senses, which are subservient to their intelligence. They may occasionally be deceived, but even so they are still better off than those who maintain that the senses can never be trusted. — City of God 19.18
1 Coríntios 13:10
But, as this faith, which works by love, begins to penetrate the soul, it tends, through the vital power of goodness, to change into sight, so that the holy and perfect in heart catch glimpses of that ineffable beauty whose full vision is our highest happiness.… We begin in faith, we are perfected in sight. — Enchiridion 1.5
1 Coríntios 13:12
Face to face—this is how the holy angels, who are called our angels, already see. They are our angels in the sense that once we have been delivered from the power of darkness, have received the pledge of the spirit and have been translated to the kingdom of Christ, we shall have begun to belong to the angels. — City of God 22.29
1 Coríntios 13:12
But when we begin to have a spiritual body as we are promised in the resurrection, let us see it even in the body, either by an intellectual vision or in some miraculous manner, since the grace of the spiritual body is indescribable. We shall then see it according to our capacity, without limitations of space, not larger in one part and smaller in another, since it is not a body, and it is wholly present everywhere. — LETTER 120, TO CONSENTIUS