Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

he might acquire for himself hearers void of faith, affecting to be esteemed a teacher, and endeavouring from time to time to employ sayings of this kind often [made use of] by Paul: "In Adam we all die; "[468]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

n Adam, that breath of life which proceeded from God, having been united to what had been fashioned, animated the man, and manifested him as a being endowed with reason; so also, in [the times of] the end, the Word of the Father and the Spirit of God, having become united with the ancient substance of Adam's formation, rendered man living and perfect, receptive of the perfect Father, in order that as in the natural [Adam] we all were dead, so in the spiritual we may all be made alive.[7]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

. For if "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,"[344]

Tertullian On Monogamy

once for all thenceforward married. If you were "in him,"[118]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

245 "The Second Adam from the havens."[95]

Origen Against Celsus Book IV

For "in Adam" (as the Scripture[191]

Origen Against Celsus Book VI

Celsus, moreover, has often mocked at the subject of a resurrection,-a doctrine which he did not comprehend; and on the present occasion, not satisfied with what he has formerly said, he adds, "And there is said to be a resurrection of the flesh by means of the tree; "not understanding, I think, the symbolical expression, that "through the tree came death, and through the tree comes life,"[190]

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

Adam, should "all be made alive."[17]

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

he was changed into the nature of the latter, himself being neither the tree of life nor that of corruption; but having been shown forth as mortal, from his participation in and presence with corruption, and, again, as incorrupt and immortal by connection with and participation in life; as Paul also taught, saying, "Corruption shall not inherit incorruption, nor death life,"[21]

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection

But if any one were to think that the earthy image is the flesh itself, but the heavenly image some other spiritual body besides the flesh; let him first consider that Christ, the heavenly man, when He appeared, bore the same form of limbs and the same image of flesh as ours, through which also He, who was not man, became man, that "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."[42]

Origen Commentary on John Book X

And since the word, "We rose with Him," does not cover the whole of the resurrection, "in Christ shall all be made alive,[113]

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