that which is in part shall be done away’ (1 Cor. 13:10, AV). Knowing and perceiving in parables are, in the Pauline sense, knowledge ‘in part’. Prophecies and promises are also ‘in part’. When distances in space and time end, this also means an end of the world which we can only lay hold of through its ‘double’, in the form of symbols, metaphors and the concepts of the imagination. The double itself then disappears. What will also pass away is theology, which—on the basis of the divine revelation