Tertullian

“ For why make a second announcement of a resurrection of only one character, that is, the spiritual one, since this ought to be undergoing accomplishment either now, without any regard to different times, or else then, at the very conclusion of all the periods? It is therefore more competent for us even to maintain a spiritual resurrection at the commencement of a life of faith, who acknowledge the full completion thereof at the end of the world. ”

“ In the Revelation of John, again, the order of these times is spread out to view, which “the souls of the martyrs” are taught to wait for beneath the altar, whilst they earnestly pray to be avenged and judged: [1] (taught, I say, to wait) , in order that the world may first drink to the dregs the plagues that await it out of the vials of the angels, [2] and that the city of fornication may receive from the ten kings its deserved doom, [3] and that the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God ”