Robert L. Dean, Jr. The termination of knowledge and prophecy in the Church Age is confirmed by the apostle’s two illustrations. “When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.” (1 Cor. 13:11) In this analogy, the child represents the incomplete knowledge available to the nascent, precanon Church. Just as a child has inadequate knowledge to live as [...]