20Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
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Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: …
There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-27)The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were not bigots and persecutors, but sceptics and infidels, and their design was upon his doctrine, to hinder the spreading of that: they denied that there was any resurrection, and world of spirits, any st…
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