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    Paul on 1 Corinthians 13 - 13 years ago
    This chapter shows Paul at his most Platonic. Charity is a far more accurate translation of the original 'agape', especially as that term was defined by Socrates nearly 400 years earlier in the notoriously misinterpreted Symposium. "For now we see through a glass (mirror) darkly; but then face to face" is the Allegory of the Cave from Book VII of The Republic. As an educated Grecophone Jew raised in Asia Minor, Saul of Tarsus would have been intimately familiar with these texts.
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