For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage - "neither can they die anymore" (Luke 20:36). Marriage is ordained to perpetuate the human family; but as there will be no breaches by death in the future state, this ordinance will cease.
But are as the angels which are in heaven. In Luke it is "equal unto the angels" х isangeloi (G2465)]: but as the subject is death and resurrection, we are not warranted to extend the equality here taught beyond the one point-the immortality of their nature. A beautiful clause is added in Luke - "and are the children of God" - not in respect of character, which is not here spoken of, but of nature - "being the children of the resurrection," as rising to an undecaying existence (Romans 8:21; Romans 8:23), and so being the children of their Father's mortality (1 Timothy 6:16).