SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:38
Porque Dios no es Dios de muertos, sino de vivos, porque todos viven para l.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 20:38
Verse 38. All live unto him.] There is a remarkable passage in Josephus's account of the Maccabees, chap. xvi., which proves that the best informed Jews believed that the souls of righteous men were in the presence of God in a state of happiness. "They who lose their lives for the sake of God, LIVE unto GOD, as do Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs." And one not less remarkable in Shemoth Rabba, fol. 159. "Rabbi Abbin saith, The Lord said unto Moses, Find me out ten righteous persons among the people, and I will not destroy thy people.
Then said Moses, Behold, here am I, Aaron, Eleazar, Ithamar, Phineas, Caleb, and Joshua; but God said, Here are but seven, where are the other three? When Moses knew not what to do, he said, O Eternal God, do those live that are dead! Yes, saith God. Then said Moses, If those that are dead do live, remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." So the resurrection of the dead, and the immortality and immateriality of the soul, were not strange or unknown doctrines among the Jews.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 38. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living , etc.] (See Gill on Matthew 22:32) for all live unto him . The Persic version, reads, all these live unto him; namely, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for though they are dead to men, they are not to God; their souls live with him, and their bodies will be raised by him: he reckons of them, as if they were now alive, for he quickens the dead, and calls things that are not, as though they were; and this is the case of all the saints that are dead, as well as of those patriarchs. The Ethiopic reads, all live with him; as the souls of all departed saints do; the Arabic version reads, all live in him; so all do now, ( Acts 17:28).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 27-38 - It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the trut of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by thi world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visibl world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this worl and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them. Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. What shall be the happ state of the inhabitants of that world, we cannot express or conceive 1Co 2:9. Those that are entered into the joy of their Lord, ar entirely taken up therewith; when there is perfection of holiness ther will be no occasion for preservatives from sin. And when God calle himself the God of these patriarchs, he meant that he was a God all-sufficient to them, Ge 17:1, their exceeding great Reward, Ge 15:1 He never did that for them in this world, which answered the ful extent of his undertaking; therefore there must be another life, in which he will do that for them, which will completely fulfil the promise.
Greek Textus Receptus
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