NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
1 Corinthians 15:53
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians
And [says] the apostle, "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."[31]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
contains all things, and then, through the wisdom of God, serves for the use of men, and having received the Word of God, becomes the Eucharist, which is the body and blood of Christ; so also our bodies, being nourished by it, and deposited in the earth, and suffering decomposition there, shall rise at their appointed time, the Word of God granting them resurrection to the glory of God, even the Father, who freely gives to this mortal immortality, and to this corruptible incorruption,[17]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
And for this reason, he says, "This mortal must put on immortality, and this corruptible must put on incorruption."[74]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
So, when this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O death, where is thy victory? "[101]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
For what sensible thing can they say, if they endeavour to interpret otherwise this which he writes: "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality; "[113]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
For this corruptible"-and as he spake, the apostle seemingly pointed to his own flesh-"must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."[478]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
because of these it was that he said: "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."[560]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
But inasmuch as "this corruptible (that is, the flesh) must put on incorruption, and this mortal (that is, the blood) must put on immortality,"[374]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
into the sense of the actual destruction of the flesh; as if we might not speak of ourselves as swallowing bile, or swallowing grief, meaning that we conceal and hide it, and keep it within ourselves. The truth is, when it is written, "This mortal must put on immortality,"[418]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Death is incapable of immortality, but not so mortality. Besides, as it is written that "this mortal must put on immortality,"[419]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
But how so, unless they become entire, who have wasted away either in the loss of their health, or in the long decrepitude of the grave? For when he propounds the two clauses, that "this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality, "[441]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
iple that the dispensation of the future state ought not to be compared with that of the present world, and that in the interval between them a change will take place; and we now add the remark, that these functions of our bodily limbs will continue to supply the needs of this life up to the moment when life itself shall pass away from time to eternity, as the natural body gives place to the spiritual, until "this mortal puts on immorality, and this corruptible puts on incorruption: "[464]
Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II
Here is a veritable eternity, in the (perennial) youth of your head! Here we have an "incorruptibility" to "put on,"[58]
Tertullian To His Wife Book I
and as a testimony of (our) faith; as a commendation of this flesh of ours, which is to be sustained for the "garment of immortality,"[73]
Origen de Principiis Book II
When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory! Where, O death, is thy victory? O death, thy sting has been swallowed up: the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law."[12]
Origen Against Celsus Book VII
The men of God say also that "the corruptible shall put on incorruption,"[69]
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written, Death is absorbed Into striving. Where, O death, is thy sting? Where, O death, is thy striving? "[667]
Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection
Therefore the apostle answers thus, "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."[37]
Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection
And therefore the apostle answers, "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal immortality."[98]
Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
And His garments wherewith they desire to be clothed are the glory of immortality, of which Paul the apostle says: "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on mortality."[20]