ACC ~ Mark 12 v25

SPIRITUAL PARTNERSHIP

TERTULLIAN: All the more we shall be bound to them [our departed spouses], because we are destined to a better estate, destined to rise to a spiritual partnership. We will recognize both our own selves and those to whom we belong. Else how shall we sing thanks to God to eternity, if there shall remain in us no sense and memory of this relationship? Or if we shall be reformed only materially, but not in consciousness? Consequently, we who are together with God shall remain together. … In eternal life God will no more separate those whom he has joined together than in this life where he forbids them to be separated. ON MONOGAMY 10. [1]

[1] Cetedoc 0028, 10.35; ANF 4:67.

NEEDS OF THE RESURRECTED BODY

JOHN OF DAMASCUS: The body of the Lord after the resurrection was such that it entered through the closed doors without difficulty, and needed neither food, nor sleep, nor drink. “For they shall be,” says the Lord, “like the angels of God,” [1] and there shall no longer be marriage or the procreation of children. ORTHODOX FAITH 4.27. [2]

[1] Mk 12:25; Lk 20:36.

[2] FC 37:405; TLG 2934.004, 100.98-101.