Luke 20:36 (WEB)
For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Catechism · 1
“As purely spiritual creatures angels have intelligence and will: they are personal and immortal creatures, surpassing in perfection all visible creatures, as the splendour of their glory bears witness.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3891; Lk 20:36; Dan 10:9- 12.
Fathers and councils · 56
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.29Book IV
““For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but the righteous are as the angels in heaven,” and also become “equal to the angels.”” — editor's note: Cf. Luke xx. 36.
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“And this is evident from the statement, that when all who are saints have arrived at the summit of perfection, they are said to be made like, or equal to, the angels, agreeably to the declaration in the Gospels.” — editor's note: Cf. Matt. xxii. 30 and Luke xx. 36.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The angels fell, the soul of man fell and they have thus indicated the abyss in that dark deep, ready for the whole spiritual creation, unless Thou hadst said from the beginning, “Let there be…” — editor's note: We may note here that Augustin maintains the existence of the relationship between these two events. He says in his Enchiridion, c. xxix., that “the restored…
Read the whole comment“For God hath promised equality with Angels: and now the Angels thirst not as we do, they hunger not as we do; but they have the fulness of truth, of light, of immortal wisdom.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
Read the whole comment“Therefore “generation and generation shall praise Thy works.…And they shall tell out Thine excellence.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
Read the whole comment“Neither do these two evangelists differ in the matter of the order.” — editor's note: Mark xii. 13–27; Luke xx. 20–40.
Read the whole commentChapter LXXVI.—Of the Harmony in Respect of the Order of Narration Subsisting Between Matthew and the Other Two Evangelists in the Accounts Given of the Occasion on Which He Foretold the Destruction of the Temple.…
Read the whole comment“For as we hope and look for what has been promised by Him, we shall be made equal to the angels of God, and together with them we shall enjoy that Trinity now by sight, wherein at present we walk by faith.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36
Read the whole comment“…also be counted worthy to be changed into angelic incorruption; so that they may be made equal unto the angels of God, even as the Lord Himself has promised; and that they may praise Him without any failure and without any weariness, ever living in Him and of Him, with such joy and blessedness as can be neither…” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36
Read the whole comment“For in the resurrection they shall neither be married, nor marry wives; for they shall not begin to die, but shall be equal to the Angels of God.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36
Read the whole comment“But Enos means man in so restricted a sense, that Hebrew linguists tell us it cannot be applied to woman: it is the equivalent of the “child of the resurrection,” when they neither marry nor are given in marriage.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
Read the whole comment“For this is the promise to the saints, that at the resurrection they shall be equal to the angels of God.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36
Read the whole comment“But when we shall be equal unto the angels of God then we shall see face to face, as they do; and we shall have as great peace towards them as they have towards us, because we shall love them as much as we are loved by them.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36
Read the whole comment“Moreover, both now are we risen to eternal life, if we perseveringly continue in the same faith; and then, too, we shall rise to eternal life, when we shall be made equal with the angels.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
Read the whole comment“…as including those two sons, the elder and the younger, along with all the holy angels, whose equals we shall be in the kingdom of Christ and of God: but here it was said, “And all mine are Thine, and Thine are mine,” with this meaning, that even the rational creature is itself included, which is subject…” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
Read the whole comment“…the subjects by Him, who hath loved us even as He hath loved Christ, that, for His sake, whose members He wished us to be, we may be equal to the holy angels, to whom we were created with an inferiority of nature, and have by our sin fallen into such greater depths of unworthiness, as to make it incumbent that we…” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
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John Chrysostom
“But Luke saith, “As Sons of God.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
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Tertullian
“…as sons of that (future) age, by slaying in themselves the concupiscence of lust, and that whole (propensity) which could not be admitted within Paradise!” — editor's note: Comp. Matt. xxii. 29, 30; Mark xii. 24, 25; Luke xx. 34–36.
Read the whole comment“…for the purpose of raising up seed to his brother; and this may happen repeatedly to the same person, according to that crafty question of the Sadducees; men for that reason think that frequency of marriage is permitted in other cases as well: it will be their duty to understand first the reason of the precept…” — editor's note: See Matt. xxii. 23–33; Mark xii. 18–27; Luke xx. 26–38. Comp. ad Ux., l. i.
Read the whole comment““But if ‘in that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be equal to angels,’ is not the fact that there will be no restitution of the conjugal relation a reason why we shall not be bound to our departed consorts?”” — editor's note: See Matt. xxii. 30; Mark xii. 25; Luke xx. 35, 36.
Read the whole comment“For you too, (women as you are,) have the self-same angelic nature promised as your reward, the self-same sex as men: the self-same advancement to the dignity of judging, does (the Lord) promise you.” — editor's note: See Matt. xxii. 30; Mark xii. 25; Luke xx. 35, 36; and comp. Gal. iii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Their specious inquiry concerned the flesh, whether or not it would be subject to marriage after the resurrection; and they assumed the case of a woman who had married seven brothers, so that it was a doubtful point to which of them she should be restored.” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 23–32; Mark xii. 18–27; Luke xx. 27–38.
Read the whole comment“To this discussion, however, our Lord’s declaration puts an effectual end: “They shall be,” says He, “equal unto the angels.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36; Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“And, really, if your god promises to men some time or other the true nature of angels (for he says, “They shall be like the angels”), why should not my God also have fitted on to angels the true substance of men, from whatever source derived?” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
Read the whole comment““But they whom God shall account worthy of the possession of that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; forasmuch as they cannot die any more, since they become equal to the angels, being made the children of God and of the resurrection.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
Read the whole comment““And all that glory shall serve Him; His dominion shall be an everlasting one, which shall not be taken from Him, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed,” because in it “men shall not die, neither shall they marry, but be like the angels.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
Read the whole comment“…verses, as well as verses 21 and 22, on account of this clause, “that all things which are written may be fulfilled;” xx. 16 was left out by him, so also verses 35–37, 50, and 51 (and, adds Lardner, conjecturally, not herein following his authority Epiphanius, also vers.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““For we shall be like the angels.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30 and Luke xx. 36.
Read the whole comment“But to Christians, after their departure from the world, no restoration of marriage is promised in the day of the resurrection, translated as they will be into the condition and sanctity of angels.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…neither marry nor are given in marriage: neither shall they die any more: for they are equal to the angels of God, being the children of the resurrection.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
Read the whole comment“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto Him.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 34–38.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.18On the Making of Man
“…are given in marriage; neither can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xx. 35, 36.
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Aphrahat
“For our Lord said:—They that are worthy of that world, and of that resurrection from the abode of the dead, shall not take wives, nor shall (women) become wives to men; for they cannot die; but they are as the angels in heaven, and are the children of God.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And, perchance, such an one has already attained the condition of “being equal to the angels.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 36.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
“22:30, Luke 20:36) But Paul also says that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink.” — the author cites it
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There were two heresies among the Jews, one of the Pharisees, who boasted in the righteousness of their traditions, and hence they were called by the people, “separated;” the other of the Sadducees, whose name…
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The heresy of the Sadducees not only denies the resurrection of the dead, but also believes the soul to die with the body. Watching then to entrap our Saviour in His words, they proposed a question just at the time…
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According to the letter of the law, a woman is compelled to marry, however unwilling, in order that a brother may raise up seed to his brother who is dead. The letter therefore killeth, but the Spirit is the master…
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Now the Sadducees resting upon a weak foundation, did not believe in the doctrine of the resurrection. For imagining the future life in the resurrection to be carnal, they were justly misled, and hence reviling the…
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They devise this story in order to convict those of folly, who assert the resurrection of the dead. Hence they object a base fable, that they may deny the truth of the resurrection.
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Mystically, this woman is the synagogue, which had seven husbands, as it is said to the Samaritan, Thou hadst five husbands, (John 4:18.) because the Samaritan follows only the five books of Moses, the synagogue for…
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Or these seven brothers answer to the reprobate, who throughout the whole life of the world, which revolves in seven days, are fruitless in good works, and these being carried away by death one after another, at…
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But our Lord shews that in the resurrection there will be no fleshly conversation, thereby overthrowing their doctrine together with its slender foundation; as it follows, And Jesus said unto them, The children of…
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For marriages are for the sake of children, children for succession, succession because of death. Where then there is no death, there are no marriages; and hence it follows, But they which shall be accounted worthy, &c.
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Which must not be taken as if only they who are worthy were either to rise again or be without marriage, but all sinners also shall rise again, and abide without marriage in that new world. But our Lord wished to…
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As our discourse is made up and completed by departing and succeeding syllables, so also men themselves whose faculty discourse is, by departure and succession make up and complete the order of this world, which is…
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For as the multitude of the angels is indeed very great, yet they are not propagated by generation, but have their being from creation, so also to those who rise again, there is no more necessity for marriage; as it…
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As if He said, Because it is God who worketh in the resurrection, rightly are they called the sons of God, who are regenerated by the resurrection. For there is nothing carnal seen in the regeneration of them that…
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Or they are equal to the angels, and the children of God, because made new by the glory of the resurrection, with no fear of death, with no spot of corruption, with no quality of an earthly condition, they rejoice in…
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But because the Lord says in Matthew, which is here omitted, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, (Mat. 22:29.) I ask the question, where is it so written, They shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage? for as…
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Or to the reason above given the Lord added the testimony of Scripture, Now that the dead are raised, Moses also shewed at the bush, (Exod. 3:6.) as the Lord saith, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the…
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Or He says this, that after having proved that the souls abide alter death, (which the Sadducees denied,) He might next introduce the resurrection also of the bodies, which together with the souls have done good or…
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As the saints claim as their own the common Lord of the world, not as derogating from His dominion, but testifying their affection after the manner of lovers, who do not brook to love with many, but desire to express…
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But when the Sadducees were silenced, the Scribes commend Jesus, for they were opposed to them, saying to Him, Master, thou hast well said.
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And since they had been defeated in argument, they ask Him no further questions, but seize Him, and deliver Him up to the Roman power. From which we may learn, that the poison of envy may indeed be subdued, but it is…
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Jerome
“‘It is sown an animal body, it shall rise a spiritual body’; and of them the Saviour said in his teaching: ‘For they who shall be worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, for they can die no more, but…” — editor's note: Luke xx. 35, 36.
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Cross-references · 35
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 22:28–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 107.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 25.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 29.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 22:28–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.10.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
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Cited together in The City of God XV.17.
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Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.10.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.18.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.29.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in Catechism §330.
Cited together in Catechism §330.
Cited together in Catechism §330.
Cited together in Catechism §330.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 27.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 22:28–30 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 107.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.10.