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LUKE 20:38 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 20:37Luke 20:39
“For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.”
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive — he is not the God of the dead but of the living: the argument. If God is the God of Abraham, and Abraham is dead, then either God is the God of the dead or Abraham is still alive. The Scripture says God is the God of the living — therefore Abraham is alive. For to him all are alive: the divine perspective transcends the distinction between the biologically living and the dead.

Church Fathers on Luke 20:38

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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