He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: you therefore do greatly err.
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: you therefore do greatly err.
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.
But the God of the living - Θεος, God, is left out by ABCDKL, and in more than forty others, Syriac, one Arabic, one Persic, Coptic, Armenian, Gothic, Saxon, Vulgate, Itala, and Origen. Griesbach has omitted it.
12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living - That is, (if the argument be proposed at length,) since thecharacter of his being the God of any persons, plainly intimates a relation to them, not as dead, but as living; and since he cannot be said to be at present their God at all, if they are utterly dead; nor to be the God of human persons, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, consisting of souls and bodies, if their bodies were to abide in everlasting death; there must needs be a future state of blessedness, and a resurrection of the body to share with the soul in it.