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33 Therefore in the reeurrectioii
whose wife of them is she ? for seven had her to wife.
34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage :
35 "^ut they which shall be account- ed worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage :
36 rf either can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of Grod, being the children of the resurrection.
87 Now thftt the dead are raiBcd, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abra- ham, and the God of Isaac, and tlie God of Jacob.
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living : for all lire unto him.
39 Then certain of the Scribes an- swering said. Master, thou hast well said.
40 And after that they durst not ask bim any questions at all.
Wb see in these verses what an old thing unbelief is. We are told that " there came to our Lord certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection/* Even in the Jewish Church, the Church of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, — the Church of Moses, and Samuel, and David, and the prophets, — we find that there were bold, avowed, unblushing sceptics. If infidelity like this existed among God's peculiar people, the Jews, what must the state of heathenism have been ? If these things existed in a green tree, what must have been the condition of the dry ?
We must never be surprised when we hear of infidels, deists, heretics and free-thinkers rising up in the Church, and drawing away disciples after them. We must not count it a rare and a strange thing. It is only one among many proo& that man is a fallen and corrupt being. Since the day when the devil said to Eve "ye shall not surely die," and Eve believed him, there never has been wanting a constant succession of forms of unbelief. — ^There is nothing new about any of the modem theories of infidelity. There is not one of them that is not an old disease under a new name. They are all mushrooms which spring up spontaneously in the hot-bed of human nature. It is not