For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels who are in heaven.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
All the more we shall be bound to them [our departed spouses], because we are destined to a better estate, destined to rise to a spiritual partnership. We will recognize both our own selves and those to whom we belong. Else how shall we sing thanks to God to eternity, if there shall remain in us no sense and memory of this relationship? Or if we shall be reformed only materially, but not in consciousness? Consequently, we who are together with God shall remain together…. In eternal life God will no more separate those whom he has joined together than in this life where he forbids them to be separated.
