When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven — the resurrection state is not the resumption of the current order but a transformed existence. Neither marry nor be given in marriage: the institution of marriage belongs to this age's conditions (procreation, companionship in mortality, the continuation of family lineage). In the resurrection age, these conditions are transcended. Like the angels in heaven: the resurrection state is comparable to the angelic, not in the sense of becoming angels, but in the sense of a transformed existence beyond the current age's categories.

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