Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Now Adam had been conquered, all life having been taken away from him: wherefore, when the foe was conquered in his turn, Adam received new life; and the last enemy, death, is destroyed,[463] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Now he says in a previous passage (of our Epistle to the Corinthians), that "the last enemy to be destroyed is death."[387] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII But the enemy of this life, who is also the last enemy of all His enemies that shall be destroyed, is death,[214]