SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:8
(Porque los saduceos dicen que no hay resurreccin, ni ngel, ni espíritu; mas los fariseos confiesan ambas cosas.)
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 23:8
Verse 8. The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection] It is strange, since these denied a future state, that they observed the ordinances of the law; for they also believed the five books of Moses to be a revelation from God: yet they had nothing in view but temporal good; and they understood the promises in the law as referring to these things alone. In order, therefore, to procure them, they watched, fasted, prayed, &c., and all this they did that they might obtain happiness in the present life. See the account of the Pharisees and Sadducees, Matt. iii. 7; xvi. 1.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection , etc.] Of the dead, being ignorant of the Scriptures, and the power of God; (see Matthew 22:23,29). neither angel nor spirit ; the Ethiopic version reads, nor Holy Spirit: but the sense seems to be, that they did not believe any such species of beings as angels, nor indeed any spirits whatever, which were immaterial or immortal; for as for the spirit or soul of man, they took that to be only the temperament of the body, and that it died with it, and did not exist in any separate state after this life: for so Josephus says, that they deny the permanence of the soul, and rewards and punishments in the invisible state. And, according to the Talmudic writers, they denied that there was any other world than this: but the Pharisees confess both ; the resurrection of the dead, and that there are spirits, both angels and the souls of men, which are immortal. Josephus, in the place before referred to, says, that they hold that every soul is incorruptible or immortal; and that they held the resurrection of the dead, is manifest from the Talmud f1152 , and other writings of theirs; the Syriac version renders it, the Pharisees confess all these things; to which agree the Arabic and Ethiopic versions.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-11 - The Pharisees were correct in the faith of the Jewish church. The Sadducees were no friends to the Scripture or Divine revelation; the denied a future state; they had neither hope of eternal happiness, no dread of eternal misery. When called in question for his being Christian, Paul might truly say he was called in question for the hop of the resurrection of the dead. It was justifiable in him, by thi profession of his opinion on that disputed point, to draw off the Pharisees from persecuting him, and to lead them to protect him from this unlawful violence. How easily can God defend his own cause! Thoug the Jews seemed to be perfectly agreed in their conspiracy agains religion, yet they were influenced by very different motives. There is no true friendship among the wicked, and in a moment, and with the utmost ease, God can turn their union into open enmity. Divin consolations stood Paul in the most stead; the chief captain rescue him out of the hands of cruel men, but the event he could not tell Whoever is against us, we need not fear, if the Lord stand by us. It is the will of Christ, that his servants who are faithful, should be always cheerful. He might think he should never see Rome; but God tell him, even in that he should be gratified, since he desired to go ther only for the honour of Christ, and to do good.
Greek Textus Receptus
σαδδουκαιοι 4523 N-NPM μεν 3303 PRT γαρ 1063 CONJ λεγουσιν 3004 5719 V-PAI-3P μη 3361 PRT-N ειναι 1511 5750 V-PXN αναστασιν 386 N-ASF μηδε 3366 CONJ αγγελον 32 N-ASM μητε 3383 CONJ πνευμα 4151 N-ASN φαρισαιοι 5330 N-NPM δε 1161 CONJ ομολογουσιν 3670 5719 V-PAI-3P τα 3588 T-APN αμφοτερα 297 A-APN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. Both. Showing that two classes of doctrines peculiar to the Sadducees, and not three, are meant: 1. The resurrection.
2. The existence of spirits, whether angels or souls of men; "neither angel nor spirit."
Robertson's NT Word Studies
23:8 {There is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit} (me einai anastasin mete aggelon mete pneuma). Infinitive with negative me in indirect assertion. These points constitute the chief doctrinal differences between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. {Both} (amfotera). Here used though three items of belief are mentioned as in #19:16 where the seven sons of Sceva are thus described. this idiom is common enough in papyri and Byzantine Greek (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 745).
