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What is the significance of SEVEN brothers in Luke 20:29?

tonychanyt

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Luke 20:

The Sadducees could have made this argument with only 2 brothers. What is the point of elongating the argument with 7 brothers?

For the Jews, the number 7 symbolized perfection and completion. The Sadducees used 7 instead of any other number as a cultural and literary device, not a mathematical or logical one.
 

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Seven are the day of the first week in Genesis, and it means the fullness of the ages.
So there is an other reading, not literal: the woman is Israel (or Jerusalem if you prefer), the husbands are the powers that ruled Israel during his history. Jesus teach that he women (Jerusalem) at the end will be free from all husbands and will stay with God as an angel.
 
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