Can someone hrlp mr intrepet 1 Corinthians 13:12?

[sidetrack]

I’ve heard that the book “A scanner darkly” has it’s title based on this passage.I’ve also heard this passage with different wording like a glass dark.The word “scanner” in this passage seems strange to me.It’s not like the apostle Paul was reffering to the kind of scanners that you would find on some printers.Yet the word “glass” in this passage seems a bit strange to me as well.Does it mean a glass like a lens or something to that effect?.This is an interestingly worded passage.Can anyone please explain the passage and it’s significance to me?.Thank you and God bless you.

 

[GeorgeShook]

Here are some different Catholic versions of that bible passage

RSV-CE

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

Douay-Rheims

12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known.

New American

12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

New Jerusalem

12 Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known.

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Ignatius Study Bible says this about the verse:
in a mirror dimly: Ancient Corinth manufactured mirrors of polished bronze. Although known for their excellent quality, thier reflected images would nonetheless remain hazy and indidstinct. Our present perception of God is similarly imperfect (see the CC 163-64 and 314)

Collegeville Bible Commentary: (btw, IMHO, this commentary, overall, can be, let’s say … liberal(but without all the political connotations))
– There is a good comment here “The Corinthians strive for knowledge, but Paul tells them that this is symptomatic of their immaturity. Even the clearest knowledge is like a shadow compared to love which sees face to face”(page 1126)

A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture
page 296 paragraph 880a
talks in regards to a glass mirror being “indirectly, or by a reflection”

Hope that helps.

 

[bluelake]

I’ve heard that the book “A scanner darkly” has it’s title based on this passage.I’ve also heard this passage with different wording like a glass dark.The word “scanner” in this passage seems strange to me.It’s not like the apostle Paul was reffering to the kind of scanners that you would find on some printers.Yet the word “glass” in this passage seems a bit strange to me as well.Does it mean a glass like a lens or something to that effect?.This is an interestingly worded passage.Can anyone please explain the passage and it’s significance to me?.Thank you and God bless you.

I read the passage.
I see this as God knowing us as we are. We are all different and have different views on everything. Ask someone about the weather and you will get defferent answers…

When we became christians the Holy Spirit takes up residence, thank goodness.
We are then led by the Spirit of God.
The Bible tells us that God knew us while we were being formed in our mother’s womb. Please
go to Ps.139;13-18 This is one of my favorite passages.

God bless,
bluelake

 

[NHInsider]

I’ve heard that the book “A scanner darkly” has it’s title based on this passage.I’ve also heard this passage with different wording like a glass dark.The word “scanner” in this passage seems strange to me.It’s not like the apostle Paul was reffering to the kind of scanners that you would find on some printers.Yet the word “glass” in this passage seems a bit strange to me as well.Does it mean a glass like a lens or something to that effect?.This is an interestingly worded passage.Can anyone please explain the passage and it’s significance to me?.Thank you and God bless you.

I have no idea where the word “scanner” came from in this title, if it is a title (sorry, I know I could check, but it’s not the point*). But the Scripture verse is generally translated as “through/in a glass/mirror.” The word in question, in the Greek, is ἐσόπτρου (esoptrou) - “polished metal,” which would have served the purpose of a mirror in Paul’s time. So the comparison is that what we know now of Jesus is like a seeing indistinct reflection and what we will experience in Heaven is like “seeing face to face.”

And there is no reference to any modern technology.

*curiosity got the better of me - it is 1970s sci-fi novel involving double-agents and drug culture, made into a movie in 2006. Still not sure, then, what the “scanner” refers to as I don’t recall that they even existed in the 1970s . . .