1 Thessalonians 4:16

Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

Well, then, what difference is there between heathens and Christians, if the same prison awaits them all when dead? How, indeed, shall the soul mount up to heaven, where Christ is already sitting at the Father's right hand, when as yet the archangel's trumpet has not been heard by the command of God,[316]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

But he says (elsewhere), "We shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord (in the air)."[931]

Tertullian On Prayer

Under the arms of prayer guard we the standard of our General; await we in prayer the angel's trump.[198]

Origen Against Celsus Book II

And respecting the living the words are these, "And we shall be changed; "an expression which follows immediately after the statement, "The dead shall be raised first."[168]

Origen Against Celsus Book II

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep."[169]

Origen Against Celsus Book V

Then, again, after this, knowing that there were others dead in Christ besides himself and such as he, he subjoins the words, "The dead in Christ shall rise first; then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."[71]

Dubious Hippolytus Fragments

For at that time the trumpet shall sound,[104]

Methodius Discourse VI. Agathe "Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him," is the voice which shall be heard from heaven, and the trumpet, when the saints, all their bodies being raised, shall be caught up, and shall go on the clouds to meet the Lord.[14]

Methodius Discourse VI. Agathe

says, that after the cry all the virgins arose, that is, that the dead shall be raised after the voice which comes from heaven, as also Paul intimates,[15]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

and afterwards shall be the voice of a trumpet by the archangel;[132]