Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Mark 12:19
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave [his] wife [behind him,] and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
19. Moses wrote ] The Law concerning the Levirate marriage is found in Deu 25:5. It was ordained for the preservation of families, that if a man died without male issue, his brother should marry his widow, and that the firstborn son should be held in the registers to be the son of the dead brother.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The true question about the resurrection was: Whether the bodies of the dead shall rise or not? Not whether they shall arise with the same qualities, affections, powers, &c. They are sown natural, but they shall rise spiritual, bodies, without affections and qualities disposing them to actions only necessary for the supporting the natural life, such as hunger and thirst, &c.; or for the upholding the world, that while one generation passeth it might be supplied by another, such as an appetite to marriage, &c.: what needs this when all generations shall be determined in the everlasting world? So as in truth these learned men showed themselves dunces, wholly ignorant of what they came to argue upon. They should first have proved that there would be any need of wives, or any such thing as marriage, after the world should have an end. In the mean time our Saviour proveth the resurrection out of the writings of Moses, owned by themselves for holy writ. Without a resurrection Abraham would not be Abraham, nor Isaac Isaac, nor Jacob Jacob. See the notes on this part of the history: See Poole on “Mat 22:24“, and following verses to Mat 22:32.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19-22. Master, Moses wrote unto us(De 25:5).
If a man’s brother die, andleave his wife behind him . . . And the seven had her, and left noseed: last of all the woman died also.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Master, Moses wrote unto us,…. Has left in writing for us the following precept to observe; for they acknowledged the writings of Moses, and indeed all the Scriptures of the Old Testament; adhering to the literal sense of them, and rejecting the traditional interpretation of them by the Rabbins:
if a man’s brother die, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother; which is the sense of the law in De 25:5;
[See comments on Mt 22:24].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Moses wrote ( ). So Lu 20:28 (Gen 38:8; Gen 25:5). Matthew has “said” ().
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “Master, Moses wrote unto us,” (didaskale Mouses apothane hemin) “Teacher Moses (in the law) wrote directly to us,” the keepers of the Mosaic law, Deu 25:5-10.
2) “If a man’s brother die,” (hoti ean tinos adelphos apothane) “That should anyone’s (any man’s) brother die,” among the Israelites, Luk 20:28.
3) “And leave his wife behind him and leave no children,” (kai katalipe gunaika kai me apheteknon) “And leave behind a wife and leave no child,” to bear his family name, Mat 22:24.
4) “That his brother should take his wife,”(hina labeho adelphos autou ten gunaika) “He provided that the living brother left should take his brother’s widow.” Deu 25:5; Rth 1:11-12.
5) “And raise up seed unto his brother.” (kai eksanastese aperma to adelpho autou) “And may raise up seed to his brother,” Deu 25:6; The Divine order had been given, even before the law, so that when Onan refused to bear a seed for the name of his deceased brother Er, the Lord killed him, Gen 38:7-10. It is shocking that these teachers of Moses’ Law had so thoughtlessly passed over so many passages that both affirmed and inferred a bodily resurrection and life hereafter for all men, Job 19:23-27; Dan 12:2.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Mar 12:19. Master, Moses wrote, &c. The Sadducees are thought by many to have agreed with the Samaritans in rejecting all the other parts of holyScripture but the five books of Moses. See the Inferences from Matthew 22. But there are others who strenuously maintain the contrary; and it is most reasonable to believe, that they did not absolutely reject the other books of the Old Testament, but only gave a great preference to the Pentateuch; and, laying it down as a principle to receive nothing as an article of faith, which could not be proved from the law, if any thing was urged from other parts of Scripture that could not be deduced from Moses, they would explain it in some other way: and this might be sufficient to induce our Lord to bring his argument to prove the resurrection from what Moses had said, and to confirm it by that part of Scripture which was most regarded by the Sadducees, and upon which they now had grounded their objection to it. See Serrarius, Lightfoot, and Doddridge.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him , and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Ver. 19. See Trapp on “ Mat 22:24 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
19. ] This is one of the cases where purpose and purport are mingled in the . See on 1Co 14:13 . It is better to take it so than with Meyer to suppose dependent on volo understood.
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Mar 12:19 . The case is awkwardly stated here as compared with Mt., though Lk. retains the awkwardness = if the brother of any one die, and leave a wife, and leave not children, let his (the brother’s) brother take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. Mk. avoids the word (in Mt.).
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Moses. See note on Mar 1:44 and Mat 8:4.
If, &c. Deu 25:5, Deu 25:6. Assuming a simple hypothesis. See App-118.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
19. ] This is one of the cases where purpose and purport are mingled in the . See on 1Co 14:13. It is better to take it so than with Meyer to suppose dependent on volo understood.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Mar 12:19. , wrote) The Sadducees, though sceptics, acknowledged Moses to be the writer of the law.–) A rare phraseology; comp. ch. Mar 5:23.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
If: Gen 38:8, Deu 25:5-10, Rth 4:5
that: Rth 1:11-13
Reciprocal: Gen 19:32 – seed Lev 18:16 – General Deu 31:9 – Moses Mat 22:24 – Moses Mat 22:25 – General Luk 20:33 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The Sadducees posed their hypothetical case to make any view of the resurrection but their own look absurd. [Note: Swete, p. 278.]