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 language, does not always employ it to express their own opinions, but conveys a spiritual truth in words which they had used to express a carnal idea. The Sadducees, in the present instance, spake of a carnal resurrection, and of a carnal marriage; but the Lord's language cannot be understood in such a sense. That of which our Lord spake is a resurrection which not all obtain, but only "they which shall be accounted worthy,"—a resurrection which makes them "the children of God, and equal unto the angels," and which must be primarily a resurrection from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness. If then, the Lord spake of a spiritual resurrection, which takes place during the present life, it is but consistent to conclude that he spake also of a spiritual marriage, which likewise takes place during the present life. This is the heavenly marriage—the conjunction of love and wisdom in the human mind, and which, if not effected here, cannot be given hereafter. That this view of the passage is correct, may appear from what is said of "the children of this world;" by whom are not meant the people of the world in general, but the worldly minded in particular, and who are therefore placed in opposition to the children of God, and of the resurrection. Such are the subjects of the, which is the conjunction of evil and falsehood, which constitutes the kingdom of darkness in the human soul, and leads to endless misery.

It is not, therefore, to be supposed that marriage