Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in a letter to a certain queen. [2] 1. He calls Him, then, “the first-fruits of them that sleep,” [3] as the “first-begotten of the dead.” [4] For He, having risen, and being desirous to show that that same (body) had been raised which had also died, when His disciples were in doubt, called Thomas to Him, and said, “Reach hither; handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not bone and flesh, as ye see me have.” ”
