Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Sed post resurrectionem, inquit, nec uxorem ducunt, nec hubnut.' "[56]

Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

for in the time it represents there will be no more marriage.[258]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

in order, indeed, that it may be rendered a fit substance for the kingdom of God. "For we shall be like the angels."[479]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

To this discussion, however, our Lord's declaration puts an effectual end: "They shall be," says He, "equal unto the angels."[469]

Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I

With what consistency do we mount that (future) judgment-seat to pronounce sentence against those whose gifts we (now) seek after? For you too, (women as you are,) have the self-same angelic nature promised[21]

Tertullian On Monogamy "But if 'in that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be equal to angels,'[82]

Origen de Principiis Book IV

And this is evident from the statement, that when all Who are saints have arrived at the summit of perfection, they are said to be made like, or equal to, the angels, agreeably to the declaration in the Gospels.[27]

Origen Against Celsus Book IV "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but the righteous are as the angels in heaven,"[119]

Methodius Discourse II. Theophila

For there are some to whom it is not given to attain virginity; and there are others whom He no longer wills to be excited by procreations to lust, and to be defiled, but henceforth to meditate and to keep the mind upon the transformation of the body to the likeness of angels, when they "neither marry nor are given in marriage,"[19]

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection

that those who shall obtain the resurrection shall then be as the angels.[28]

Recognitions of Clement III

Whence also angels, who are spirits, see God; and therefore men, as long as they are men, cannot see Him. But after the resurrection of the dead, when they shall have been made like the angels,[15]

Revelation of Saint John the Theologian

All the human race shall arise without bodies, as I told you that in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God.[16]

Origen Commentary on John Book II

But such a view is both foolish and impious, since the other Scriptures testify against this interpretation and declare that, when we are somewhat more advanced, we shall be equal to the angels.[57]

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