John Gill's Exposition on Mark 12:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, etc..] This last clause, “when they shall rise”, is omitted in two copies of Beza's, and in the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, because, perhaps, it might be thought superfluous; but this is agreeably to the way of speaking and writing with the Jews: so in the Targum on (<380307>Zechariah 3:7): nya aytym twyab, “in the quickening of the dead I will quicken thee”; or, in the resurrection of the dead I will raise thee. The question put on supposition of a resurrection, and that these seven brethren, and the wife they all had should rise, then is, Æ j whose wife shall she be of them? of the seven brethren; j for the seven had her to wife. She was, according to law, the lawful wife of all seven; what particular and special claim could one have to her above the rest? (see Gill on “<402228>Matthew 22:28”).

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