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Luk 20:38. Πάντες, all) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all of whom God is the God, but who are dead to men. To men they are dead; whereas to Him, αὐτῷ, viz. God, they live.-γὰρ, for) This is the very kind of conclusion in which the particle therefore (inferential) might have been expected. But instead of it, for is put down, as in Rom 3:28.[220] The for is used in this sense: Argumentation has been employed [proof has been adduced]: ‘for’ this was the point of the truth which needed to be demonstrated.-αὐτῷ, to Him) To God, not to mortals. Moreover, they so live to God, as to enjoy God. [1Pe 4:6].-ζῶσιν) all live, viz. with the soul: and so they shall live with soul and body. The whole time of the soul being separated from the body is, as it were, a moment in relation to the union which was originally intended, and which is destined to last for ever: also in relation to God, to whom things future are not in the least remote, nay, are most present and immediate: Rom 4:17 [“God-calleth those things which be not as though they were”].
[220] This seems to me a misprint, though it is found both in the Quarto Edition of 1759, and the modern Ed. of Steudel. For in Rom 3:28, the inferential particle οὖν is employed, not γὰρ, which Bengel’s argument requires. Probably it should be Rom 2:28, οὐ γὰρ ἐν τῷ φανερῷ Ἰουδᾶιός ἐστιν, etc., “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly,” etc.; where οὖν, therefore, might have been expected.-E. and T.