Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion…
(1885)
“ Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. ”
Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion…
(1885)
“ For if “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” [6] their vivification in Christ must be in the flesh, since it is in the flesh that arises their death in Adam. “But every man in his own order,” [7] because of course it will be also every man in his own body. ”
Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion…
(1885)
“ Now, if I mistake not, he enumerates all these particulars in order that in his unwillingness to have his conflicts in the flesh supposed to be useless, he may induce an unfaltering belief in the resurrection of the flesh. For useless must that conflict be deemed (which is sustained in a body) for which no resurrection is in prospect. “But some man will say, How are the dead to be raised? ”
