Chapter 13 seems like a
digression because some of these materials are pre-Pauline, a kind of aretalogy
of love derived from Jewish wisdom traditions (Conzelmann, 218). Yet its
contents are intimately linked to the foregoing and following chapters on pneumatika:
the themes of prophecy and tongues in particular, and the question of who is a
spiritual person in general. (Neil Elliott, “Situating the Apostle Paul in His
Day and Engaging His Legacy in Our Own,” in The New Testament, ed.
Margaret Aymer, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, and David A. Sánchez, Fortress
Commentary on the Bible [Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2014], 456)
Chapter 13 stands out from
its context as a unity *sui generis*. But internally the section is made up of
different stylistic forms, which also make use of correspondingly different
materials. (Hans Conzelmann, 1 Corinthians: A Commentary on the First
Epistle to the Corinthians [Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary
on the Bible; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975], 218)
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