--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Though = If. App-118 . speak . App-121 . men . App-123 . charity = love. App-135 . sounding . Greek. echeo. Only here and Luke 21:25 (roaring). bra" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/1-corinthians/13" --- **Though** = If. App-118 . **speak** . App-121 . **men** . App-123 . **charity** = love. App-135 . **sounding** . Greek. *echeo.* Only here and [Luke 21:25](../../../kjv/luke/21/25) (roaring). **brass** . Greek. *chalkos.* See [Matthew 10:9](../../../kjv/matthew/10/9) . [Revelation 18:12](../../../kjv/revelation/18/12) . Elsewhere, [Mark 6:8](../../../kjv/mark/6/8) ; [Mark 12:41](../../../kjv/mark/12/41) ; (money). **tinkling** . Greek. *alalazo.* Only here and [Mark 5:38](../../../kjv/mark/5/38) . An onomatopoeic word. Frequent in the Septuagint of the battle shout; [Joshua 6:20](../../../kjv/joshua/6/20) . [Judges 15:14](../../../kjv/judges/15/14) . [1 Samuel 17:20](../../../kjv/1-samuel/17/20) , [1 Samuel 17:52](../../../kjv/1-samuel/17/52) ; &c. **cymbal** . Greek. *kumbalon.* Only here, but frequent in the Septuagint. **understand** = know. App-132 . **mysteries** . App-193 . **knowledge** . App-132 . **faith** . App-150 . **remove** . Greek. *methistemi.* See [Acts 13:22](../../../kjv/acts/13/22) . **nothing** . Greek. *oudeis.* **bestow** = give away in doles. Greek. *psomizo.* Only here and [Romans 12:20](../../../kjv/romans/12/20) . Compare "sop", [John 13:26](../../../kjv/john/13/26) . **goods** = the things belonging ( *huparcho,* [Luke 9:48](../../../kjv/luke/9/48) ) to me. **give** = deliver up. Greek. *paradidomi.* See [John 19:30](../../../kjv/john/19/30) . **to be** = in order that (Greek. *hina)* it may be. **it profiteth, &c** . = I am nothing profited. **is kind** . Greek. *chresteuomai.* Only here. Compare App-184 . Note the Figure of speech *Asyndeton* in these verses: [1 Corinthians 13:13](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/13) , [1 Corinthians 13:4-8](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/4-8) . **envieth** . Greek. *zeloo.* See [Acts 7:9](../../../kjv/acts/7/9) . **vaunteth** . Greek. *perpereuomai.* Only here. **is . . . puffed up** . See [1 Corinthians 4:6](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/4/6) . **Doth . . . behave, &c** . Greek. *aschemoneo.* Only here and [1 Corinthians 7:36](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/7/36) . **is . . . easily provoked** = is . . . roused to anger. Greek. *paroxunomai* Only here and [Acts 17:16](../../../kjv/acts/17/16) . There is no word for "easily". The statement is absolute. **thinketh no evil** = reckons not (Greek. *ou)* the evil done to it). **evil** . App-128 . **in** = upon, or at. App-104 . **iniquity** = unrighteousness. App-128 . **rejoiceth in the truth** = rejoiceth with (as in [1 Corinthians 12:26](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/12/26) ) the truth, i.e. as it wins its way, truth being personified. **Beareth** . Greek. *stego.* See [1 Corinthians 9:12](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/9/12) . Here it means "is forbearing in all provocations". **believeth** . App-150 . **never** . Greek. *oudepote.* **faileth** . All the texts read "falleth". **whether** . Greek. *eite* . **fail** = be brought to nought. Greek. *katargeo.* See [Romans 3:3](../../../kjv/romans/3/3) . **vanish away** . Same as "fail". **know** . App-132 . **in part** . Greek. *ek* ( App-104 .) *merous.* **perfect** . App-125 . **done away** . Same as "fail", [1 Corinthians 13:8](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/8) . **child** . App-108 . **thought** = reasoned. Greek. *logizomai.* **put away** = did away with. Greek. *katargeo,* as in verses: [1 Corinthians 13:8](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/8) , [1 Corinthians 13:10](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/10) . **childish things** = the things of a child. **see** . App-133 . **through** . App-104 . [1 Corinthians 13:1](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/1) . **glass** = mirror. Greek. *esoptron.* Only here and [James 1:23](../../../kjv/james/1/23) . **darkly** . Literally in (Greek. *en)* a riddle. Greek. *ainigma.* Only here in N.T. In the Septuagint, [Numbers 12:8](../../../kjv/numbers/12/8) . [1 Kings 10:1](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/1) .[Proverbs 13:1](../../../kjv/proverbs/13/1) , [Proverbs 13:6](../../../kjv/proverbs/13/6) , &c. **know** = fully know. App-132 . **even as, &c** . = even as I was fully known also. **abideth** . 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