1 Peter 3:18

Martyrdom of Polycarp " This he said at the suggestion and urgent persuasion of the Jews, who also watched us, as we sought to take him out of the fire, being ignorant of this, that it is neither possible for us ever to forsake Christ, who suffered for the salvation of such as shall be saved throughout the whole world (the blameless one for sinners[46]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

of our heretic. Now, that the very Lord Himself of all might, the Word and Spirit of the Father,[671]

Tertullian On Modesty

He might undergo death on behalf of sinners.[293]

Origen de Principiis Book II

of those who were destroyed in the deluge; of which hope Peter himself thus speaks in his first Epistle: "That Christ, indeed, was put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, by which He went and preached to the spirits who were kept in prison, who once were unbelievers, when they awaited the long-suffering of God in the days of Noah, when the ark was preparing, in which a few, i.e., eight souls, were saved by water. Whereunto also baptism by a like figure now saves you."[61]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Epistle of Peter the apostle: "Christ hath died once for our sins, the just for the unjust, that He might present us to God."[298]