Papias

“ IV. [12]
As the elders who saw John the disciple of the Lord remembered that they had heard from him how the Lord taught in regard to those times, and said] : “The days will come in which vines shall grow, having each ten thousand branches, and in each branch ten thousand twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in every one of the shoots ten thousand clusters, and on every one of the clusters ten thousand grapes, and every grape when pressed will give five-and-twenty metretes of wine. ”

“ But I shall not be unwilling to put down, along with my interpretations, [3] whatsoever instructions I received with care at any time from the elders, and stored up with care in my memory, assuring you at the same time of their truth. For I did not, like the multitude, take pleasure in those who spoke much, but in those who taught the truth; nor in those who related strange commandments, [4] but in those who rehearsed the commandments given by the Lord to faith, [5] and proceeding from truth itself. ”

“ The presbyters, the disciples of the apostles, say that this is the gradation and arrangement of those who are saved, and that they advance through steps of this nature; and that, moreover, they ascend through the Spirit to the Son, and through the Son to the Father; and that in due time the Son will yield up His work to the Father, even as it is said by the apostle, “For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” [20] For in the times of the kingdom the just man who is on the earth shall forget to die. ”