Tertullian

“ As, therefore, it is by death that He kills, it is by the resurrection that He will make alive. Now it is the flesh which is killed by death; the flesh, therefore, will be revived by the resurrection. Surely if killing means taking away life from the flesh, and its opposite, reviving, amounts to restoring life to the flesh, it must needs be that the flesh rise again, to which the life, which has been taken away by killing, has to be restored by vivification. ”

“ Existence, however, it will have, when it is restored in order to be punished. To the flesh, therefore, applies everything which is declared respecting the blood, for without the flesh there cannot be blood. The flesh will be raised up in order that the blood may be punished. ”

“ There are, again, some statements (of Scripture) so plainly made as to be free from all obscurity of allegory, and yet they strongly require [7] their very simplicity to be interpreted. There is, for instance, that passage in Isaiah: “I will kill, and I will make alive.” [8] Certainly His making alive is to take place after He has killed. ”