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30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but aare like angels of God in heaven.  
31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
32 a‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”  
33 And when the multitudes heard this, athey were astonished at His teaching.  

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34 aBut when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  
35 Then one of them, aa lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,  
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Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham - The argument runs thus: God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: (for that expression, Thy God, implies both benefit from God to man, and duty from man to God) but he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: therefore, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not dead, but living. Therefore, the soul does not die with the body. So indeed the Sadducees supposed, and it was on this ground that they denied the resurrection. Exodus 3:6.




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