Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 38:16

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 565, footnote 14 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Anti-Marcion. (HTML)

On the Resurrection of the Flesh. (HTML)

Prophetic Things and Actions, as Well as Words, Attest This Great Doctrine. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 7488 (In-Text, Margin)

... restored in order to be punished. To the flesh, therefore, applies everything which is declared respecting the blood, for without the flesh there cannot be blood. The flesh will be raised up in order that the blood may be punished. There are, again, some statements (of Scripture) so plainly made as to be free from all obscurity of allegory, and yet they strongly require their very simplicity to be interpreted. There is, for instance, that passage in Isaiah: “I will kill, and I will make alive.”[Isaiah 38:16] Certainly His making alive is to take place after He has killed. As, therefore, it is by death that He kills, it is by the resurrection that He will make alive. Now it is the flesh which is killed by death; the flesh, therefore, will be revived by ...