Luke 20:33

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”

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Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”

BSB

So then, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven were married to her.”

KJV

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

ASV

In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them shall she be? for the seven had her to wife.

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ἡ hē The G3588 γυνὴ gunē woman G1135 οὖν oun therefore G3767 ἐν en in G1722 τῇ tēa the G3588 ἀναστάσει anastasei resurrection G386 τίνος tinos of which G5101 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 γίνεται ginetai does she become G1096 γυνή; gunē wife G1135 οἱ hoi (the) G3588 γὰρ gar For G1063 ἑπτὰ hepta the seven G2033 ἔσχον eschon had G2192 αὐτὴν autēn her G846 γυναῖκα.¶ gunaika as wife G1135

The early church

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 the most part seven. And from none of them has she received the seed of an hereditary offspring, and so can have no part with her husbands in the resurrection, because she perverts the spiritual meaning of the precept into a carnal. For not any carnal brother is pointed at, who should raise seed to his deceased brother, but that brother who from the dead people of the Jews should claim unto himself for wife the wisdom of the divine worship, and from it should raise up seed in the Apostles, who being left as it were unformed in the womb of the synagogue, have according to the election of grace been thought worthy to be preserved by the admixture of a new seed.
Ambrose of Milan · d. 397Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · 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 truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world 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 happy 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, are entirely taken up therewith; when there is perfection of holiness there will be no occasion for preservatives from sin. And when God called 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 full extent of his undertaking; therefore there must be another life, in which he will do that for them, which will completely fulfil the promise.

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