But they who shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Sed post resurrectionem, inquit, nec uxorem ducunt, nec hubnut.' ".
Rightly, then, they reckon the number seven motherless and childless, interpreting the Sabbath, and figuratively expressing the nature of the rest, in which "they neither marry nor are given in marriage any more."