Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
When I was a child, 
I spake as a child,
I understood as a child,
I
thought as a child:
but when I became a man,
I put away childish things.
Vs.11
--The present state is a state of childhood,
--the future that of
manhood:
When I was a child, I spoke as a child (that is, as some think,
spoke with tongues), I understood as a child; ephronoun—sapiebam
(that is, "I prophesied, I was taught the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven, in such an extraordinary way as manifested I was not out of my childish
state"), I thought, or reasoned, elogizomeµn,
as a child; but, when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Such is
the difference between earth and heaven.
When I was a child - This future state of
blessedness is as far beyond the utmost perfection that can be attained
in this world, as our adult state of Christianity is above our state of
natural infancy, in which we understand only as children understand;
speak only a few broken articulate words, and reason only as children
reason; having few ideas, little knowledge but what may be called mere
instinct, and that much less perfect than the instinct of the brute
creation; and having no experience. But when we became men-adults,
having gained much knowledge of men and things, we spoke and reasoned
more correctly, having left off all the manners and habits of our
childhood.
What narrow views, what confused and
indistinct notions of things, have children, in comparison of grown men! ....As our spiritual growth shall increase, we shall not want these childish things.
We shall despise our childish folly, in priding ourselves in such
things when we are grown up to men in Christ.
