ACC ~ 2 Timothy 2 v18

THE IMMATERIALITY OF GNOSTIC RESURRECTION TEACHING. TERTULLIAN: Similarly Paul touches those who said that the resurrection had already happened. The Valentinians affirm this of themselves. PRESCRIPTIONS AGAINST HERETICS 33.

REDUCING RESURRECTION TO PROCREATION. AMBROSIASTER: These heretics deny that Christians shall rise in a future life and insist that the resurrection happens in the natural birth of children. COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY.

THEN NO GLORY AND NO JUDGMENT. CHRYSOSTOM: If the resurrection is already past, not only do we suffer loss in being deprived of that great glory, but because judgment is taken away and retribution also. For if the resurrection is past, retribution also is past. The good therefore have reaped persecutions and afflictions, and the wicked have not been punished. On the contrary, they live in great pleasure. It would be better to say that there is no resurrection than that it is already past. HOMILIES ON 2 TIMOTHY 5.

CORRECT ESCHATOLOGY. ATHANASIUS: Hymenaeus and Alexander and their fellows were confused about time—ahead of time—when they said that the resurrection had already occurred. The Galatians misunderstood the dispensations by making so much of circumcision now. DISCOURSES AGAINST THE ARIANS 1.54.

RESURRECTION MISUNDERSTOOD AS PROCREATION. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: The heretical teaching about the resurrection is that it happens in the process of natural procreation, by which our children succeed us. COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY.

NATURAL SUCCESSIONS. THEODORET OF CYR: The successions that happen through the procreation of children they unhappily call the resurrection. INTERPRETATION OF THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY.

EZEKIEL’S REVIVIFIED BONES. PELAGIUS: The resurrection has happened, according to them, either in children or in Ezekiel’s reference to the revivified bones of the people of Israel in captivity. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY.

WHETHER THE RESURRECTION TOOK PLACE IN FAITH. AUGUSTINE: Therefore, all who have established a sect of some religion, even a false one, wishing that they be believed, have not been able to deny this resurrection of human souls. All have agreed on that, but many have denied the resurrection of the flesh and have said that resurrection has already taken place in faith. … They said that resurrection had already taken place but in such a way that another was not to be hoped for; and they reproached those who hoped for the resurrection of the flesh, as though the resurrection which had been promised was already fulfilled in the human soul by believing. TRACTATES ON JOHN 19.14.

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