1 Thessalonians 4:18
Douay-Rheims
Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
Tertullian
Well, then, what difference is there between heathens and Christians, if the same prison awaits them all when dead? How, indeed, shall the soul mount up to heaven, where Christ is already sitting at the Father's right hand, when as yet the archangel's trumpet has not been heard by the command of God, -when as yet those whom the coming of the Lord is to find on the earth, have not been caught up into the air to meet Him at His coming, in company with the dead in Christ, who shall be the first to arise? To no one is heaven opened; the earth is still safe for him, I would not say it is shut against him.
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A.D. 220 · on 1Thess 4:17 (A Treatise on the Soul)
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