Acts 23:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For the Sadducees, &c.— "For, on one hand, the Sadducees, those freethinkers of the age, deny that there will be a resurrection of the dead, or that there is any such permanent being, as an angel, in the invisible world, or a separate spirit of man that survives the death of the body, and subsists in a state of disunion from it: but, on the contrary, the Pharisees, the strictest sect of the Jews, contend earnestly for the certainty of the resurrection of the body, and the existence of spiritual beings, both of the angelic and human rank, in the other world."