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John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,.... The Sadducees expressly denied, that the resurrection could be proved out of the law, "Says R. Eliezer, with R. Jose F7 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 90. 2. , I have found the books of the Sadducees to be corrupt; for they say that the resurrection of the dead is not to be proved out of the law: I said unto them, you have corrupted your law, and ye have not caused anything to come up into your hands, for ye say the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:33

And when the multitude heard this ,.... This wise and full answer of Christ to the posing question of the Sadducees, with which perhaps they had puzzled many, and never had met with their match before: they were astonished at his doctrine ; concerning the pure, perfect, and angelic state of the righteous in the world to come;, and how strongly and nervously he proved the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the dead, which were both denied by the Sadducees; and who were so... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:24

Raise up seed unto his brother - This law is mentioned Deuteronomy 25:5 . The meaning of the expression is, that the children produced by this marriage should be reckoned in the genealogy of the deceased brother, and enjoy his estates. The word seed should be always translated children or posterity. There is a law precisely similar to this among the Hindoos. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:25

Seven brethren - It is very likely that the Sadducees increased the number, merely to make the question the more difficult. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:28

Whose wife shall she be of the seven? - The rabbins have said, That if a woman have two husbands in this world, she shall have the first only restored to her in the world to come. Sohar. Genes. fol. 24. The question put by these bad men is well suited to the mouth of a libertine. Those who live without God in the world have no other god than the world; and those who have not that happiness which comes from the enjoyment of God have no other pleasure than that which comes from the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:29

Ye do err - Or, Ye are deceived - by your impure passions: not knowing the scriptures, which assert the resurrection: - nor the miraculous power of God ( την δυναμιν του Θεου ) by which it is to be effected. In Avoda Sara, fol. 18, Sanhedrin, fol. 90, it is said: "These are they which shall have no part in the world to come: Those who say, the Lord did not come from heaven; and those who say, the resurrection cannot be proved out of the law." Their deception appeared in their supposing,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:31

Have ye not read - This quotation is taken from Exodus 3:6 , Exodus 3:16 ; and as the five books of Moses were the only part of Scripture which the Sadducees acknowledged as Divine, our Lord, by confuting them from those books, proved the second part of his assertion, "Ye are ignorant of those very scriptures which ye profess to hold sacred." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham - Let it be observed, that Abraham was dead upwards of 300 years before these words were spoken to Moses: yet still God calls himself the God of Abraham, etc. Now Christ properly observes that God is not the God of the dead, (that word being equal, in the sense of the Sadducees, to an eternal annihilation), but of the living; it therefore follows that, if he be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, these are not dead, but alive; alive with God, though they had ceased,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:33

The multitude were astonished at his doctrine - God uses the infidelity of some for the edification of others. Had no false doctrine been broached in the world, we had not seen the full evidence of the true teaching. The opposition of deists and infidels has only served to raise up men in behalf of the truth of God, who not only have refuted them, but shown, at the same time, that the sacred testimonies are infinitely amiable in themselves, and worthy of all acceptation. Truth always gains... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:24

Verse 24 24.Master, Moses said. As it was enough to mention the bare fact, why do they make use of this preface? They cunningly employ the name of Moses, for the purpose of proving that they were lawful marriages, which had been contracted not by the will of men, but by the command and appointment of God himself. But that God should contradict Himself is impossible. Their sophistry therefore is this: “If God shall one day collect believers into His kingdom, He will restore whatever He had given... read more

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