Matthew 22:30 (WEB)
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
Catechism · 1
“Jesus endorses some of the teachings imparted by this religious elite of God's people: the resurrection of the dead,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 22:23-34; Lk 20:39.
Fathers and councils · 69
Augustine of Hippo
“We believe that He Ascended into Heaven, which place of blessedness He has likewise promised unto us, saying, “They shall be as the angels in the heavens,” in that city which is the mother of us all, the Jerusalem eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30
Read the whole comment“…thou entreatest the Physician: what, when thou shalt have received perfect soundness also, what when thou shall have been made “equal to the Angels of God,” wilt thou then perchance forget that grace, whereby thou hast been delivered?” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“Already we have one that unbelievers have not: but not yet have believers that which Angels have: but they will have, at the time when they will be equal to the Angels of God, that which hath been promised to them in the Resurrection.” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“Is it lawful to give tribute to Cæsar, or not?” and so on, down to the words, “And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at His doctrine.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 15–33.
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: Matt. xxii. 29, 30
Read the whole comment“And the Lord Himself says: “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“…that God alone is their light; because the Lord hath promised this also to His own: “In the resurrection,” says He, “they will be as the angels in heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“…and accordingly from their answer He drew this inference, “Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 15–34.
Read the whole comment“Remember, in whichever sex ye are, whether men or women, that ye are leading on earth the life of Angels: “For the Angels are neither given in marriage, nor marry.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“To their company the Lord teaches that His little ones belong; and not only says, “They shall be equal to the angels of God,” but shows, too, what blessed contemplation the angels themselves enjoy, saying, “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you,…” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“And though it was a fit opportunity for His saying, She about whom you make inquiries shall herself be a man, and not a woman, He said nothing of the kind; but “In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“Certainly they are: this is the promise to us, “They shall be equal to the angels of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
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Tertullian
“The ogdoad, or eightfold number, therefore, is not concerned in our formation; for in the time it represents there will be no more marriage.” — editor's note: Beyond the hebdomad comes the resurrection, on which see Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“…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““For we shall be like the angels.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30 and Luke xx. 36.
Read the whole comment“Therefore no solicitude arising from carnal jealousy will, in the day of the resurrection, even in the case of her whom they chose to represent as having been married to seven brothers successively, wound any one of her so many husbands; nor is any (husband) awaiting her to put her to confusion.” — editor's note: See Matt. xxii. 23–33; Mark xii. 18–27; Luke xx. 27–40.
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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. Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis IV.3Book IV
“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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Jerome
“…is not a property of human bodies, we must deny also that Peter and the Lord had real bodies because they walked upon the water, which is contrary to nature.“In the resurrection of the dead they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be like the angels.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment““In the resurrection,” the Lord tells us, “they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels…in heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“No, if we are to be like angels, we shall have the bodies of angels.”” — editor's note: Cf. Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 29, 30.
Read the whole comment“You quote the words, “It is sown an animal body: it shall rise a spiritual body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 44; Matt. xxii. 30; Luke xx. 35.
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Ambrose of Milan
“What shall I say of the resurrection of which you already hold the rewards: “For in the resurrection they will neither be given in marriage, nor marry, but shall be,” He says, “as the angels in heaven.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“How then, when the angels stand on the right hand and on the left of the Lord God, when all the host of heaven stands, shall men sit on the right hand of God or on His left, to whom is promised as a reward for virtue likeness to the angels, as the Lord says: “Ye shall be as the angels in heaven?”” — editor's note: S. Matt xxii. 30.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Men, he says, “in the resurrection will be like the angels of God,” to wit, in incorruption, and immortality, and incapacity of loss.” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30.
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John Chrysostom
““For in the resurrection,” saith He, “they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in Heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30. [The second verb is peculiar, but conveys the same sense as the received text.—R.]
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Clement of Alexandria
““For in this world they marry and and are given in marriage.”” — editor's note: Matt xxii. 30.
Read the whole comment“Sed post resurrectionem, inquit, nec uxorem ducunt, nec hubnut.’”” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 30; Mark xii. 23; Luke xx. 35.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
As soon as the Pharisees were gone, came the Sadducees; perhaps with like intent, for there was a strife among them who should be the first to seize Him. Or if by argument they should not be able to overcome Him,…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
There were two sects among the Jews, the Pharisees and the Sadducees; the Pharisees pretended to the righteousness of traditions and observances, whence they were called by the people ‘separate.’ The Sadducees (the…
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
They not only denied the resurrection of the body, but took away the immortality of the soul.
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
For the Devil finding himself unable to crush utterly the religion of God, brought in the sect of the Sadducees denying the resurrection of the dead, thus breaking down all purpose of a righteous life, for who is…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Matthew
But there are who observing that the spirit is loosed from the body, that the flesh is turned to corruption, that the corruption is reduced to dust, and that the dust again is resolved into the elements, so as to be…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
But that earthy matter of which the flesh of men is made perishes not before God; but into whatsoever dust or ashes reduced, into whatsoever gases or vapours dispersed, into whatsoever other bodies incorporated,…
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
But the Sadducees thought they had now discovered a most convincing argument in favour of their error.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
For because death to the Jews, who did all things for the present life, seemed an unmixed evil, Moses ordered that the wife of one who died without sons should be given to his brother, that a son might be born to the…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
As they disbelieved the resurrection of the body, and supposed that the soul perished with the body, they accordingly invent a fable to display the fondness of the belief of a resurrection. Thus they put forward a…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
Mystically; by these seven brethren are understood the wicked, who could not bring forth the fruit of righteousness in the earth through all the seven ages of the world, during which this earth has being, for…
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Wisely does He first convict them of folly, in that they did not read; and afterwards of ignorance, in that they did not know God. For of diligence in reading springs knowledge of God, but ignorance is the offspring…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
They therefore err because they know not the Scriptures; and because they know not the power of God.
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
Two things there are which He says they know not, the Scriptures and the power of God, by which is brought to pass the resurrection, and the new life in it. Or by the power of God, which the Lord here convicts the…
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or, when He says, “In the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage,” He referred to what He had said, “Ye know not the power of God;” but when He proceeded, “I am the God of Abraham, &c.” to that…
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In these words the Latin language cannot follow the Greek idiom. For the Latin word ‘nubere’ is correctly said only of the woman. But we must take it so as to understand “marry” of men, “to be given in marriage” of…
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In this life that we may die, therefore we are born; and we marry to the end that which death consumes, birth may replenish; therefore where the law of death is taken away, the cause of birth is taken away likewise.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
It had been enough to have cut off this opinion of the Sadducees of sensual enjoyment, that where the function ceased, the empty pleasure of the body accompanying it ceased also; but He adds, “But are as the Angels…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Which is an apt reply to their question. For their reason for judging that there would be no resurrection, was that they supposed that their condition when risen would be the same; this reason then He removes by…
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
It should be noted, that when He spoke of fasting, alms, and other spiritual virtues, He did not bring in the comparison of Angels, but only here where He speaks of the ceasing of marriage. For as all acts of the…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
This that is added, “But are as the Angels of God in heaven,” is an assurance that our conversation in heaven shall be spiritual.
Read the whole comment - Dionysius the AreopagiteCatena Aurea on Matthew
For then when we shall be incorruptible and immortal, by the visible presence of God Himself we shall be filled with most chaste contemplations, and shall share the gift of light to the understanding in our…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
The same cavil that the Sadducees here offer respecting marriage is renewed by many who ask in what form the female sex shall rise again. But what the authority of Scripture leads us to think concerning the Angels,…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
To me they seem to think most justly, who doubt not that both sexes shall rise again. For there shall be no desire which is the cause of confusion, for before they had sinned they were naked; and that nature which…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
For none could say of a stone and a tree or inanimate things, that they shall not marry nor be given in marriage, but of such things only as having capacity for marriage, shall yet in a sort not marry.
Read the whole comment - Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
These things which are spoken concerning the conditions of the resurrection He spoke in answer to their enquiry, but of the resurrection itself He replies aptly against their unbelief.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
And because they had put forward Moses in their Question, He confutes them by Moses, adding, “But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read.”
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
In proof of the resurrection there were many plainer passages which He might have cited; among others that of Isaiah, “The dead shall be raised; they that are in the tombs shall rise again:” [Isa 26:29, Septuagint]…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
How then is it said in another place, “Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” [Rom 14:8] This which is said here differs from that. The dead are the Lord’s, those, that is, who are to live again, not those who…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
It should be further considered, that this was said to Moses at a time when those holy Patriarchs had gone to their rest. They therefore of whom He was the God were in being; for they could have had nothing, if they…
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God moreover is He who says, “I am that I am;” [Ex 3:14] so that it is impossible that He should be called the God of those who are not. And see that He said not, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but “The…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
Seasonably may we confute the Manichaeans by this same passage by which the Sadducees were then confuted, for they too, though in another manner, deny the resurrection.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
God is therefore called in particular “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,” because in these three are expressed all the modes of begetting the sons of God. For God begets most times of a good…
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And see how the assault of the Jews against Christ becomes more faint. Their first challenge was in a threatening tone, “By what authority doest thou these things,” to oppose which firmness of spirit was needed.…
Read the whole comment - Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
Not the Sadducees but the multitudes were astonished. This is daily done in the Church; when by Divine inspiration the adversaries of the Church are overcome, the multitude of the faithful rejoice.
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Matthew 22:30 and Mark 12:25 share the same wording (11 words).
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