<p>12:19 <i>Teacher, Moses wrote to us- </i>The Lord picks this up in His answer in Mt. 22:31: &ldquo;Have you not read that which was&nbsp;<i>spoken</i>&nbsp;unto you by&nbsp;<i>God</i>&rdquo;. He is telling them that God and not Moses was the ultimate speaker to them; and that the word was not merely&nbsp;<i>written</i>&nbsp;but is a living word, actively&nbsp;<i>speaking</i>&nbsp;unto them. For all their much vaunted belief in Divine inspiration of the Scriptures, these men had failed to perceive that God was speaking to them personally through the human authors. And that criticism needs to be remembered today by those equally wedded to a declared belief in Divine inspiration of the Bible. It is to be to us a word&nbsp;<i>spoken</i>&nbsp;and not a dead letter written on paper.</p><p><i>If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife behind him and leaves no children, then his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother</i>- The Lord could have replied that if they read the entire passage in Dt. 25:5-7, they would see that God actually made a concession in this matter; and the whole principle only applied to &ldquo;brethren dwelling together&rdquo;. A man did not&nbsp;<i>have to</i>&nbsp;marry his brother&rsquo;s wife. In any case, as most adult men were married, it would have usually been a case of polygamy. But again, the Lord didn&rsquo;t point out that expositional error, but goes on to develop a far greater and higher principle concerning the nature of His Kingdom, in which such casuistry about marriage will be simply irrelevant. And again, He sets an example to those who have spent their religious lives arguing about divorce and remarriage and fellowship issues. Their arguments could be demonstrated to be expositionally faulty. But the higher principle is that such issues shall be irrelevant in God&rsquo;s Kingdom; and we are to live the essence of the Kingdom life now as far as we can, in spirit at least. The Sadducees made a big deal of the fact that the word translated &ldquo;raise up seed&rdquo; is that used generally in the Septuagint for resurrection. Their idea was that resurrection is not of the body but through family life. To die childless was therefore tragic indeed. The same error is made by many today who effectively believe that family life is the ultimate form of spirituality. It is not, and God seeks to build a personal relationship with each of us, He is the personal God of Abraham, Isaac etc., and we shall experience a personal bodily resurrection at which we shall appear before God stripped of our family, and relate to Him as a single individual.</p>