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13 QUT L. Rev. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/qutlj13 and id is 1 raw text is: QUT Law Review Volume 13, Number 1, 2013 1 FAITH HOPE AND CHARITY: THE RESILIENCE OF THE CHARITABLE TRUST FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE 21ST CENTURY' THE WA LEE LECTURE 2011 THE HON JUSTICE MARGARET MCMURDO ACO I INTRODUCTION This paper takes its title from the King James Bible's poetic translation of a beautiful passage from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians which concludes: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.1 Over the years, charity gained something of a bad name, epitomised by the similie as cold as charity. Perhaps that is why more recent translations of Paul's v Based on the 2011 WA Lee Equity Lecture delivered 17 November 2011, Banco Court, Supreme Court of Queensland, Brisbane. President, Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland. I gratefully acknowledge the research and editing assistance of my associate, Ms Wylie Nunn, and the secretarial and editing assistance of my executive assistant, Ms Andrea Suthers. The complete passage is contained in Ch 13 v 1-13: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth with all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 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. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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