Paraphrase on ‘tongues’ in I Corinthians 13:8f
Paul then went on to remind the Corinthians that love or considerateness will abide forever — long after tongues in general (and apparently the various miraculous language-gifts in particular) — would cease! ‘Love never fails [or falls down]…. But tongues shall cease’ of their own accord. ‘For…when maturity comes, then what is incomplete shall be done away with’ — or put itself out of gear.
We are not in this article out to prove that the various miraculous gifts (such as those of miraculous healings and miraculous tongues-speakings etc) would disappear during the apostolic age, upon the completion of the inscripturation of Holy Writ. However — this is indeed the stated position of Augustine II, Luther, Calvin, the Westminster theologians, Owen, Voetius, Chas. & A.A. Hodge, Edwards, Godet, Shedd, Warfield, Kuyper, Hughes and Lee.
