died also. 33In the resurrection therfore, whose wife shal she be of them? sithens the seven had her to wife. 34And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marrie, and are given in marriage: 35but they that ″ shal be [1] counted worthie of that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marrie, nor take wives; 36neither can they die any more, for they are ″ equal to Angels: and they are the sonnes of God, seeing they are the sonnes of the resurrection. 37But that the dead rise againe, Moyses also shewed, beside the bush, as he calleth the Lord: Exo. 3, 6.The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38For God is not of the dead, but of the living: for al live to him. 39And certaine of the Scribes answering, said to him: Maister, thou hast said wel. 40And further they durst not aske him anything.
41But he said to them: Mt. 22, 44. Mr. 12, 36.* How say they that Christ is the sonne of David, 42and David himself saith in the booke of Psalmes: Ps. 109, 1.The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, 43til I put thine enemies, the footstoole of thy feete? 44David then calleth him Lord: and how is he his sonne?
45And al the people hearing him, he said to his Disciples: 46 Mt. 23, 6. Mr. 12, 38.* Beware of the Scribes, that wil walke in robes, and love salutations in the market-place, and the first chaires in the synagogues, and the cheefe roomes in feastes. 47Which devoure widowes houses: feining long prayer. These shal receive greater damnation.
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. XX.
To be worthie of heaven, or to deserve and merite it.35. Shal be counted worthie.) This truth and Speach that good men be worthy of Heaven, is according to the Scriptures, and signifieth that mans workes done by Christs grace do condignely or worthily deserve eternal joy: As Sap. 3. God proved them, and found them worthy of himself: and Mat. 10. He that loveth his father more then me, is not worthy of me. and Colos. 1, That you may walke worthy of God: and most plainly Apoc. 3. They shal walke with me in white, because they are worthy: as of Christ (c. 1) Thou art worthie, o Lord, to receive glorie &c. And that, to be counted worthie, and to be worthie, is here al one, it is plaine, καταξιωθηναι αξιωθηναιby the Greeke word, which S. Paul useth so, as The new Testament. an. 1580.the Adversaries owne English Testaments do testifie, reading thus Hebre. 10. Of how much sorer punishment shal he be worthie, which &c. And it must needes signifie, because men for sinnes are not only counted, but are indeed worthie of punishment, as themselves do grant. They doe greatly therfore forget themselves, and are ignorant in the Scriptures, and know not the force nor the value of the grace of God, which doth not only make our labours grateful to God, but worthie of the reward which he hath provided for such as love him. See the Annot. 2 Thess. 1, 5.
The dignitie of Saints.36. Equal to Angels.) Saints of our kind, now in their soules, and after their resurrection in body and soule together, shal be in al things equal to Angels: and for degree of blisse, many Saints of greater merit shal be above divers Angels: as S. John Baptist, the Apostles, and others, and our B. Lady above al the orders of holy Spirits in dignitie and blisse: and no marvel, our nature by Christ being so highly exalted above al Angels.
- ↑ The greeke oι καταξιωθεντες importeth also this much They that are made worthie, to wit, by the grace of God; and so they are indeed worthie: as also in the next chapter verse 36. and 2. Thess. 1, 5.
