Fragments of Papias

But that there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce an hundred-fold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that of those who produce thirty-fold; for the first will be taken up into the heavens, the second class will dwell in Paradise, and the last will inhabit the city; and that on this account the Lord said, "In my Father's house are many mansions: "[17]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

by the increase of God, each of the members having its own proper and fit position in the body. For there are many mansions in the Father's house,[374]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

[They say, moreover], that there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce an hundred-fold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that of those who produce thirty-fold: for the first will be taken up into the heavens, the second will dwell in paradise, the last will inhabit the city; and that was on this account the Lord declared, "In My Father's house are many mansions."[340]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

, he wished elegantly to use the same term in his comparison of the ultimate reward; promising to the very house, which undergoes dissolution through suffering, a better house through the resurrection. Just as the Lore also promises us many mansions as of a house in His Father's home;[271]

Tertullian On Monogamy

albeit there be "many mansions", in the house of the same Father[84]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IX

: "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? "[51]

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