Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V 3. John, therefore, did distinctly foresee the first "resurrection of the just,"[344] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh But here also I must first meet the same sophistry as advanced by those who contend that the Lord, like (the prophets), said everything in the way of allegory, because it is written: "All these things spake Jesus in parables, and without a parable spake He not unto them,"[222]