John Calvin Commentary 1 Corinthians 13:11

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things." — 1 Corinthians 13:11 (ASV)

When I was a child—he illustrates what he had said by a comparison. For there are many things suitable for children that are afterwards put away upon arriving at maturity. For example, education is necessary for childhood; it does not suit mature age.

So long as we live in this world, we require, in some sense, education. We are far from having yet attained the perfection of wisdom. That perfection, therefore, which will be in a way a maturity of spiritual age, will put an end to education and its accompaniments.

In his Epistle to the Ephesians (Ephesians 4:14), he exhorts us to be no longer children; but he has there another consideration in view, of which we shall speak when we come to that passage.