circumstance, rare, and perhaps long since canvassed,1 which might have been nearly as well raised from the case of any woman who had married more than one husband. The main- tainers of errors frequently seek for a colour for them from things which are little or nothing to the point.
28. T/Vos, whose) She will, say they, be the wife either of all or of one : but none of them has a superior claim to the rest. Jesus answers (ver.. 30) she will be the wife of none. The Pharisees also had divided and opposed those things wrhich are Caesar's, and those which are God's : He who is the Truth, affirms both in His reply to them : to the Sadducees He denies both. Earthly wisdom frequently precipitates itself into ab surdity from an imperfect enumeration, even in an easy matter, of parts, not one of which escapes heavenly wisdom. — ^n stdorfs, ?c.r.X., not knowing, etc.) This twofold ignorance is the mother of almost all errors. The resurrection of the dead rests on the power of God : and the belief in the resurrection rests on the Scriptures. Jesus refutes their first and fundamental error (irpurov -^fufoi) : which they did not suppose themselves to labour under at all. He first answers the argument by which they opposed the truth : then He proves the truth itself. — rag ypaipac, the Scriptures) which clearly look to a future life ; see ver. 31, 32. The Sadducees did not understand Moses : they did not receive the prophets who explain Moses. — T-/IV dvva/tiv ro\J &sov, the power of God) The power of God will make man equal to the angels ; see ver. 30. To be ignorant of God and His perfections is the fountain of error; see 1 Cor. xv. 34 [Rom. iv. 17, E. B.]
30. Ours yapoiJaiv, neither marry) sc. men — oure nor are given in marriage) sc. women ; cf. ver. 25. — u TO\J ©goti, as the angels of God) The absurdity which the Sad ducees supposed would apply to the righteous rather than the unrighteous, as no one could imagine that the unrighteous would enjoy the blessing of marriage. Our Lord therefore replies only concerning the righteous. The righteous will then be in the same condition as the angels of God,2 without wedlock,
1 But which had not heretofore been sufficiently and decidedly cleared up. -V.g.
2 The unrighteous will be in the same condition as the sinful and fallen angels. — V. g.