Verse 35
35. Women received (literally, from a resurrection) their dead The son of the widow of Zarephath, (1 Kings 17:17,) raised by Elijah, and of the Shunammite, (2 Kings 4:17,) by Elisha.
Were tortured Literally, were tympanized, or tortured, perhaps to death, on the tympanum, or tambourine, or drum. The tympanum (derived from tupto, to strike) was, first, a musical instrument with a circular frame varying from a drum to a tambourine, with a skin membrane to be beaten to produce the tune. Thence a similar frame, sometimes called a wheel, upon which criminals were stretched for beating, with a severity often ending in death.
A better resurrection Than that of the widows’ sons; being a resurrection not to a temporal but to an immortal life.
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