For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Ver. 30. For in the resurrection they neither marry] Therefore our condition then shall be better than that of Adam's in Paradise, where he had need of a meet help, Chenegdo, such another as himself, a second self. St Luke adds the reason why men shall not marry in the resurrection, viz, they can die no more; and therefore need not marry for propagation of their kind and immortalizing of their name. Mahomet, as he professed that himself had a special licence given him by God to know what woman he would, and to put them away when he would; so he promised to all his votaries and adherents the like carnal pleasures at the resurrection. Sensualists cast God and the things of God into a dishonourable mould; they rise not above their spring.
But are as the angels of God] ισαγγελοι. Are, that is, certainly shall be; yea, in their Head, Christ, they are so already. For God hath even here "raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,"Ephesians 2:6. And at the resurrection, the just shall shine as the sun in heaven, nay, as the Son of God himself, with whom they shall appear in glory, as his spouse. Uxor fulget radiis mariti, is a maxim in law. Their vile bodies shall be conformed to his most glorious body, Philippians 3:21, the standard in beauty, brightness, agility, immortality, &c., and other like unspeakable angelical qualities and perfections. Their souls shall be freed from all evil, fraught with all fulness both of grace and of glory.