Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
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Gill's Exposition
And the seventh had her, and left no seed,.... All, the seven brethren married her, one after another, and neither of them had any children by her:
and last of all the woman died also; after all the…
See this passage fully explained in the notes at Mat 22:23-33. Mar 12:25 Are as the angels - That is, as the angels in respect to connections and relations. What those connections and relations may be…
The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were…
Cambridge Bible
there were seven brethren It was probably a fictitious case, for the Jews were averse to the fulfilling of the enactment at all.