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This new translation of First Corinthians includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated with the epistle, including issues of its authorship, time of composition, and purpose, and he also presents a complete outline. The author analyzes the...

4. Love is patient; love is kind. With this verse Paul begins the second section of his presentation (vv. 4–8a), in which he personifies love “as a thinking and choosing being which inspires the behavior of the faithful in many different fields” (Spicq, Agape, 150). He lists its sixteen characteristics by the use of the same number of verbs. The symmetry of his short sentences allows the character of love to emerge. Paul shows that love is not a mere feeling, but it evokes a mode of action. Patience
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