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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John of Damascus
AD 749
The body of the Lord after the resurrection was such that it entered through the closed doors without difficulty, and needed neither food, nor sleep, nor drink. “For they shall be,” says the Lord, “like the angels of God,” and there shall no longer be marriage or the procreation of children.
But is it not absurd to say that these members will exist after the resurrection from the dead, since the Saviour said, "They neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but shall be as the angels in heaven? "
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.
With what consistency do we mount that (future) judgment-seat to pronounce sentence against those whose gifts we (now) seek after? For you too, (women as you are, ) have the self-same angelic nature promised.
"But if 'in that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be equal to angels,'