1 Clement

Let us consider, beloved, how the Lord continually proves to us that there shall be a future resurrection, of which He has rendered the Lord Jesus Christ the first-fruits[101]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

and receiving into His bosom the ancient fathers, has regenerated them into the life of God, He having been made Himself the beginning of those that live, as Adam became the beginning of those who die.[447]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

1. He calls Him, then, "the first-fruits of them that sleep,"[455]

1 Clement

the first-fruits[118]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

-on this account it was necessary for Him to go to Jerusalem, that having suffered many things in that Jerusalem, He might make "the first-fruits"[136]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

For so long as Christ "had not been raised from the dead. the first-fruits of them that are asleep,"[137]

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