of a woman who had married only two brothers successively would have as effectually illustrated the point in question. The only means at their disposal for casting reproach on a scriptural doctrine consisted in appending to it unnatural and foolish opinions; these inferences, which the Lord distinctly exposes, were deduced from the Pharisaic doctrine that marriage ties would be renewed in the other world—a doctrine for which no evidence whatever existed.—B. The woman died also = without leaving a