Colossians 1:18

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 II

Then, at last, He came on to death itself, that He might be "the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence,"[150]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

and that He might have the pre-eminence over those things which are under the earth, He Himself being made "the first-begotten of the dead; "[274]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

as the "first-begotten of the dead."[456]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the same place: "The first-born from the dead, that He might in all things become the holder of the pre-eminence."[124]

Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

and so He ceased to send to them prophets. But He commanded His own Son, the first-begotten,[90]