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Luk 20:36. Οὔτε, neither) They have a body so perfect, that they are subject neither to the law of marriage nor to death, which gave occasion to the succession of brothers in the having to wife the one woman. That shall be a state more firm and lasting than the Adamic state.-ἰσάγγελοι γὰρ, for they are like [equal to] the angels) An Ætiology (see Append. on this figure), assigning the reason why there shall then be no marriages.-υἱοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ, sons of God) Equally as are the angels.-τῆς ἀναστάσεως) of the resurrection, which comprehends under it immortality. An antithesis to die (ἀποθανεῖν), and an instance of the figure Ploce.[219]-ὄντες) Resolve this into, inasmuch as they are.
[219] See Append. A word employed twice, once to express the simple meaning, and afterwards an attribute of it. Ἀνάστασις first simply, then including immortality in it.-E. and T.