Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 23:8

8 Yīnwei Sādūgāi rén shuō , méiyǒu fùhuó , yĕ méiyǒu tiānshǐ , hé guǐ hún , Fǎlìsaìrén què shuō , liǎngyàng dōu yǒu .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 23:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection
Of the dead, being ignorant of the Scriptures, and the power of God; see ( Matthew 22:23 Matthew 22:29 ) .

neither angel nor spirit;
the Ethiopic version reads, "nor Holy Spirit": but the sense seems to be, that they did not believe any such species of beings as angels, nor indeed any spirits whatever, which were immaterial or immortal; for as for the spirit or soul of man, they took that to be only the temperament of the body, and that it died with it, and did not exist in any separate state after this life: for so Josephus ^F24 says, that they deny the permanence of the soul, and rewards and punishments in the invisible state. And, according to the Talmudic ^F25 writers, they denied that there was any other world than this:

but the Pharisees confess both;
the resurrection of the dead, and that there are spirits, both angels and the souls of men, which are immortal. Josephus, in the place before referred to, says, that they hold that every soul is incorruptible or immortal; and that they held the resurrection of the dead, is manifest from the Talmud ^F26, and other writings of theirs; the Syriac version renders it, "the Pharisees confess all these things"; to which agree the Arabic and Ethiopic versions.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 De Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 10. sect. 19.
F25 T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 54. 1. & Gloss. in ib. & Pirke Abot R. Nathan, c. 5.
F26 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 90. 2.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 23:8 In-Context

6 Bǎoluó kàn chū dà zhòng , yī bàn shì Sādūgāi rén , yī bàn shì Fǎlìsaìrén , jiù zaì gōnghuì zhòng dàshēng shuō , dìxiōng men , wǒ shì Fǎlìsaìrén , yĕ shì Fǎlìsaìrén de zǐsūn . wǒ xiànzaì shòu shĕnwèn , shì wéi pànwàng sǐ rén fùhuó .

7 Shuō le zhè huà , Fǎlìsaìrén hé Sādūgāi rén , jiù zhēnglùn qǐlai , huì zhòng fèn wéi liǎng dǎng .

8 Yīnwei Sādūgāi rén shuō , méiyǒu fùhuó , yĕ méiyǒu tiānshǐ , hé guǐ hún , Fǎlìsaìrén què shuō , liǎngyàng dōu yǒu .

9 Yúshì dàdà de xuān nāng qǐlai . yǒu jǐ gè fǎ lì saì dǎng de Wénshì zhàn qǐlai , zhēng biàn shuō , wǒmen kàn bú chū zhè rén yǒu shénme ĕ chù , tǎngruò yǒu guǐ hún , huò shì tiānshǐ , duì tā shuǒ guò huà , zĕnmeyàng ne .

10 Nàshí dà qǐ zhēng chǎo , qiā fú zhǎng kǒngpà Bǎoluó beì tāmen chĕ suì le , jiù fēnfu bīng dīng xià qù , bǎ tā cóng zhòngrén dāngzhōng qiǎng chūlai , daì jìn yíng lóu qù .