Quesnel: Moral Reflections on the Gospels Vol 1

CHAPTER XXII. 343
" 25. Now there were with us seven brethren
and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased,
and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother
26. Likewise the second also, and the third, unto
the seventh. 27. And last of all the woman died
also. 28. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife
shall she be of the seven? for they all had her."
Sensualists fear the loss of carnal pleasures in the
other world. They are always mistaken, either in
referring to the present life the truths of the other,
or in entertaining dishonourable notions of this last,
and applying to it those mysteries and truths which
belong to the church here below, and to the forming
of the mystical body of Christ. The devil amuses
men with cares suited to their inclinations. Curious
questions are a dangerous temptation in the church,
and produce libertines therein. The truths of the
resurrection of the body, and of the immortality of
the soul, disturb and perplex these men the most,
and therefore they attack them on every side, and by
all the ways imaginable.
" 29. Jesus answered and said unto them. Ye do
err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of
God."
Let us be sure not to judge of God, of his
designs, and of his works, by the power of reason
alone; this is to derogate nature, from the infinity of
his being, and the incomprehensibility of his greatness.
There are two causes of the opposition of men to the
truths of Christianity. The first is, in that they do
not sufficiently understand the Scriptures for want
of due application, zeal, faith, reverence, and humi-
lity ; they will not frequent the school of God, in