Luke 20:33 — Community Reflections

LUKE 20:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.”

Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her? — at the resurrection whose wife will she be: the question assumes the resurrection simply extends the present life's relationships into the future. The absurdity of the scenario is the argument: the resurrection, if it exists, produces this impossible situation.

Church Fathers on Luke 20:33

There were two heresies among the Jews, one of the Pharisees, who boasted in the righteousness of their traditions, and hence they were called by the people, “separated;” the other of the Sadducees, whose name signified “righteous,” claiming to themselves that which they were not. When the former went away, the latter came to tempt Him.
Bede · 8th century

The heresy of the Sadducees not only denies the resurrection of the dead, but also believes the soul to die with the body. Watching then to entrap our Savior in His words, they proposed a question just at the time when they observed Him teaching His disciples concerning the resurrection; as it follows, And they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If a brother, &c.
Origen · 3rd century

According to the letter of the law, a woman is compelled to marry, however unwilling, in order that a brother may raise up seed to his brother who is dead. The letter therefore kills, but the Spirit is the master of charity.
Ambrose · 4th century

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