Luke 20:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For all live unto him.— It is evident that γαρ, for, must here have the force of an illative particle, and may be rendered therefore, or so that; for what it introduces is plainly the main proposition to be proved, and not an argument for what immediately went before. In this connection the consequence is apparently just: for, as all the faithful saints of God are the children of Abraham, and the divine promise of being a God to him and his seed is entailed upon such, it would prove their continual existence and happiness in a future state, as much as Abraham's: and as the body as well as the soul makes an essential part of man, it will prove both his resurrection and theirs, and entirely overthrow the whole Sadducean doctrine on this head. See the note on Matthew 22:31; Matthew 22:46.