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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 12:25 - 12:25
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For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage - “neither can they die any more” (Luk 20:36). Marriage is ordained to perpetuate the human family; but as there will be no breaches by death in the future state, this ordinance will cease.
but are as the angels which are in heaven - In Luke (Luk 20:36) it is “equal unto the angels.” But as the subject is death and resurrection, we are not warranted to extend the equality here taught beyond the one point - the immortality of their nature. A beautiful clause is added in Luke (Luk 20:36) - “and are the children of God” - not in respect of character, which is not here spoken of, but of nature - “being the children of the resurrection,” as rising to an undecaying existence (Rom 8:21, Rom 8:23), and so being the children of their Father’s immortality (1Ti 6:16).