In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
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Gill's Exposition
For when they shall rise from the dead,.... These seven brethren, and the woman; and so any, and every other:
they neither marry, nor are given marriage: there will be no such natural relation…
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…
Adam Clarke
When they shall rise - This clause is wanting in BCDL, four others, Syriac, later Arabic, later Persic, Coptic, Saxon, and two of the Itala. Griesbach leaves it doubtful.
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
In the resurrection therefore Their difficulty originated entirely in a carnal notion that the connections of this life must be continued in another.