“The Savior also demonstrated the great ignorance of the Sadducees by bringing forward their own leader Moses, who was clearly acquainted with the resurrection of the dead. He set God before us saying in the bush, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." Of whom is he God, if, according to…”
Cyril of Alexandria, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 136
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38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
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36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
37Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
— Luke 20:38 —
39Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
40And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.