Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I f God took place in these last times, that is, in the end, rather than in the beginning [of the world]; and unfold what is contained in the Scriptures concerning the end [itself], and things to come; and not be silent as to how it is that God has made the Gentiles, whose salvation was despaired of, fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers with the saints; and discourse how it is that "this mortal body shall put on immortality, and this corruptible shall put on incorruption; "[141] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Therefore, when man has been liberated, "what is written shall come to pass, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death sting? "[464] Athenagoras On the Resurrection of the Dead and outrage, and suffering of all kinds) or after death (for both together no longer exist, the soul being separated from the body, and the body itself being resolved again into the materials out of which it was composed, and no longer retaining anything of its former structure or form, much less the remembrance of its actions): the result of all this is very plain to every one,-namely, that, in the language of the apostle, "this corruptible (and dissoluble) must put on incorruption,"[12] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh ; "and the strength of sin is the law"[385] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Of the brave Christ, is swallowed; "[116] Origen Against Celsus Book VI And also: "When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."[186] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews In the fifth Psalm: "But in the grave who will confess unto Thee? "[812] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes And this saying is also true, that "death is swallowed up in victory."[262] where is thy sting? "And again: "Death is swallowed up of victory."[274] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection For if the kingdom of God, which is life, were possessed by the body, it would happen that the life would be consumed by corruption. But now the life possesses what is dying, in order that "death may be swallowed up in victory"[44]