Rebuttal of the massive time-gap claim: the verse-by-verse flow of 1 Cor 13:8-12 is continuous; no gap is linguistically justified.

The Masters Seminary interpretation requires inserting centuries between v. 11 and v. 12, but the text provides no indication of a time gap. The "now" and "then" of v. 12 directly correspond to the "partial" and "complete" of vv. 9-10, and the child/adult analogy of v. 11 illustrates the same single transition. The third cessationist concept (church maturity = Bible) is also critiqued as a roundabout way of restating the first interpretation.