25. For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor
are given in marriage--"neither can they die any more"
(Lu 20:36).
Marriage is ordained to perpetuate the human family; but as there will
be no breaches by death in the future state, this ordinance will cease.
but are as the angels which are in heaven--In Luke
(Lu 20:36)
it is "equal unto the angels." But as the subject is death and
resurrection, we are not warranted to extend the equality here taught
beyond the one point--the immortality of their nature. A
beautiful clause is added in Luke
(Lu 20:36)
--"and are the children of God"--not in respect of character,
which is not here spoken of, but of nature--"being the children
of the resurrection," as rising to an undecaying existence
(Ro 8:21, 23),
and so being the children of their Father's immortality
(1Ti 6:16).
JFB.
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