Irenaeus

“ The prolonged life of the ancients, the translation of Elijah and of Enoch in their own bodies, as well as the preservation of Jonah, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the midst of extreme peril, are clear demonstrations that God can raise up our bodies to life eternal, 65 6. ”

“ When Christ visited us in His grace, He did not come to what did not belong to Him: also, by shedding His true blood for us, and exhibiting to us His true flesh in the Eucharist, He conferred upon our flesh the capacity of salvation, 58 3. The power and glory of God shine forth in the weakness of human flesh, as He will render our body a participator of the resurrection and of immortality, although He has formed it from the dust of the earth ”

“ There is but one Lord and one God, the Father and Creator of all things, who has loved us in Christ, given us commandments, and remitted our sins; whose Son and Word Christ proved Himself to be, when He forgave our sins, 100 18. ”

“ Those persons are deceived who feign another God the Father besides the Creator of the world; for he must have been feeble and useless, or else malignant and full of envy, if he be either unable or unwilling to extend eternal life to our bodies, 64 5. ”

“ The devil is well practised in falsehood, by which Adam having been led astray, sinned on the sixth day of the creation, in which day also he has been renewed by Christ, 116 24. Of the constant falsehood of the devil, and of the powers and governments of the world, which we ought to obey, inasmuch as they are appointed of God, not of the devil, 119 25. The fraud, pride, and tyrannical kingdom of Antichrist, as described by Daniel and Paul, 121 26. ”

“ Antichrist's reign and death, 135 31. The preservation of our bodies is confirmed by the resurrection and ascension of Christ: the souls of the saints during the intermediate period are in a state of expectation of that time when they shall receive their perfect and consummated glory, 139 32. In that flesh in which the saints have suffered so many afflictions, they shall receive the fruits of their labours ”

“ We should not hastily impute as crimes to the men of old time those actions which the Scripture has not condemned, but should rather seek in them types of things to come: an example of this in the incest committed by Lot 1 32. ”

“ To the former prophecies he subjoins others drawn from Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Apocalypse of John, 151 36. Men shall be actually raised: the world shall not be annihilated; but there shall be various mansions for the saints, according to the rank allotted to each individual. ”

“ Men are possessed of free-wlll, and endowed with the faculty of making a choice. It is not true, therefore, that some are by nature good, and others bad, 36 38. Why man was not made perfect from the beginning, 42 39. Man is endowed with the faculty of distinguishing good and evil ”