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NASB | Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven [who do not marry nor produce children]. |
Subject: Do Angels have Genders? Male and Female? |
Bible Note: Hi EdB, The phrase "they do not marry" of Matthew 22:30 is commented on by Matthew Henry’s Commentary and concurs with the reasoning I presented. It says, “But, in the resurrection, there is no occasion for marriage; whether in glorified bodies there will be any distinction of sexes.” This is a well thought out conclusion. In it’s entirety the commentary makes explanation. It says, “It is not like the state we are now in upon earth; They neither marry, nor are given in marriage. In our present state marriage is necessary; it was instituted in innocency; whatever intermission or neglect there has been of other institutions, this was never laid aside, nor will be till the end of time. In the old world, they were marrying, and giving in marriage; the Jews in Babylon, when cut off from other ordinances, yet were bid to take them wives, Jer. 29:6. All civilized nations have had a sense of the obligation of the marriage covenant; and it is requisite for the gratifying of the desires, and recruiting the deficiencies, of the human nature. But, in the resurrection, there is no occasion for marriage; whether in glorified bodies there will be any distinction of sexes some too curiously dispute (the ancients are divided in their opinions about it); but, whether there will be a distinction or not, it is certain that there will be no conjunction; where God will be all in all, there needs no other meet-help; the body will be spiritual, and there will be in it no carnal desires to be gratified: when the mystical body is completed, there will be no further occasion to seek a godly seed, which was one end of the institution of marriage,” Here he tells us that there will be no male/female but like the angels. As you know, the purpose of God’s making the two sexes was for producing offspring. Another line of reasoning is the fact that merely referring to God or angels in the masculine gender is a grammar characteristic of that language. Examples found in the Bible and everyday usage today abound where the pronouns and nouns are of a certain gender but not necessarily literally of that gender, Las casas in Spanish is in the feminine gender but certainly does not mean that the houses are female. Likewise angels in English are in the masculine but that does not mean they are males. They are spirit creatures that were created without the privilege of procreating. Before the deluge of Noah’s day, angels had to materialize in order to procreate, to have gender. But as angels, they could not cohabit, procreate, marry nor have gender. Truthfinder |