`I will say no more about translations, etc., but would mention that you

and those holding your views are destroying the truths of Christ for the

sake of the Old Testament religion which you conveniently put in its

place, because it is easier to be a Jew than a Christian.  Our Lord used

the Jewish scriptures, solely because He was speaking to Jews and they

would not have understood any other.  If He had been born a Greek He

would have used their wonderful scriptures; or if born in China, He would

have used Laotzu and Confucius and so on.  Through all of these and

others, Vedas, Pitakas, Upanishads, Avesta and so on, God was speaking in

"sundry times and divers manners in times past" and through all we can

(or should) see the many and varied reasons why man could not grasp all

the truth, and learn from all these various lessons.  But with you people

who are so conceited that you know it all without, there is no hope'.

`So also, as our Lord said, He would be with them in "a little while"

(not centuries after) in the person of the spirit of Truth, and of course

has been.  The physical sciences for instance have been a most important

means of His continuous revelation (here comes a personal note).  If at

that time I could have got some sense into some of you people as to what

God was saying so plainly through electronics 30 years ago, we should be

in a very different state today ...'.

We make no comment.  The letter at least shows that Paul's prophecy concerning

the last days was not overdrawn; men are most evidently having their ears

turned away from the truth, and turned unto myths.

Fail.  The argument of the apostle in 1 Corinthians 13:8 -11 is blunted by the

fact that where the Spirit has repeated the word katargeo four times in this

passage, the A.V.  gives four different renderings thus:

Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail.

knowledge, it shall vanish away.

that which is in part shall be done away.

I put away childish things.

The R.V.  uses `done away' for the first three passages, altering to `put away'

in the fourth.  In Young's Literal Translation, the four occurrences of

katargeo are rendered by `become useless', which, though inelegant, does put

the reader wise as to the repetition.  Katargeo is rendered

in the A.V. by such terms as abolish, bring to nought, cumber, destroy, do

away, make of none effect, make void, put away, vanish away; and if this is

remembered when the argument of the apostle in 1 Corinthians 13 is read, the

transient nature of Pentecostal gifts will need no further demonstration.

If the four occurrences of katargeo in 1 Corinthians 13:8 -11 are

compared with the four in 2 Corinthians 3, the gifts will be seen to have no

more claim to permanence or to belong to the dispensation of grace than the old

covenant itself.  To facilitate this comparison we give the references in 2

Corinthians 3.

2

Which glory was to be done away.

2

If that which is done away.

2

To the end of that which is abolished.

2

Which veil is done away in Christ.

See also the article Hid (p. 125).