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Luke 20:36-38
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Luke 20:36-38
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36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels[a] and are sons of God, since they are[b] sons[c] of the resurrection. 37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised[d] in the passage about the bush,[e] where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.[f] 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living,[g] for all live before him.”[h]
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- Luke 20:36 sn Angels do not die, nor do they eat according to Jewish tradition (1 En. 15:6; 51:4; Wis 5:5; 2 Bar. 51:10; 1QH 3.21-23).
- Luke 20:36 tn Grk “sons of God, being.” The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle here.
- Luke 20:36 tn Or “people.” The noun υἱός (huios) followed by the genitive of class or kind (“sons of…”) denotes a person of a class or kind, specified by the following genitive construction. This Semitic idiom is frequent in the NT (L&N 9.4).
- Luke 20:37 tn Grk “But that the dead are raised even Moses revealed.”
- Luke 20:37 sn See Exod 3:6. Jesus used a common form of rabbinic citation here to refer to the passage in question.
- Luke 20:37 sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.
- Luke 20:38 sn He is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus’ point was that if God could identify himself as God of the three old patriarchs, then they must still be alive when God spoke to Moses; and so they must be raised.
- Luke 20:38 tn On this syntax, see BDF §192. The point is that all live “to” God or “before” God.
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