“Mystically, this woman is the synagogue, which had seven husbands, as it is said to the Samaritan, Thou hadst five husbands, (John 4:18.) because the Samaritan follows only the five books of Moses, the synagogue for the most part seven. And from none of them has she received the seed of an hereditary offspring, and so…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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31And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
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29There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
30And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
— Luke 20:31 —
32Last of all the woman died also.
33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.