Luke 20

Luke 20:5

HIm,] namely, Iohn, who did baptize.

Luke 20:20

Iust men,] honest men, sincere and zealous.

Luke 20:34

The children,] namely men in this world.

Luke 20:35

They whch,] he speakes especially of the elect & beleevers; not but that the wicked shal rise again also: but because he would accommodate his answer to the Sadduces question, which seemed onely to have a relation to the righteous and happy onely amongst whom they imagined that if there were a resurrection from the dead, the order of this life should be re-established, and not amongst the damned.

Luke 20:36

Neither can they] wherefore there is no more need of marriage to preserve mankind, which would otherwise come to nothing. And also because that immortality is accompanied with all the other qualities of a celestiall life, separate from all the conditions and wants of this present life Equall] in glory and spirituall life Are the children] their adoption doth then shew it selfe at full, and their regeneration is perfect, by this last degree of re-establishment of Gods Image in them. See Rom. 8. 23. 1 Iohn 3. 2.

Luke 20:38

Of the living] that is to say all those holy Fathers, their soules doe live a celestiall life, which hath no other object but God, to contemplate, love, serve and glorifie him: and is quite separate from the world, and from this animall life. See Romans 6:10. And as for their bodies, they are living in Gods mind, to whom their resurrection is present, as well by his everlasting decree: as because they have had the seed of it in this life, in the gift of the H. Ghost.