Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 45

XLIV.&#8212;Of the First Resurrection.

From heaven will descend the city in the first resurrection; this is what we may tell of such a celestial fabric.&#160; We shall arise again to Him, who have been devoted to Him.&#160; And they shall be incorruptible, even already living without death.&#160; And neither will there be any grief nor any groaning in that city.&#160; They shall come also who overcame cruel martyrdom under Antichrist, and they themselves live for the whole time, and receive blessings because they have suffered evil things; and they themselves marrying, beget for a thousand years.&#160; There are prepared all the revenues of the earth, because the earth renewed without end pours forth abundantly.&#160; Therein are no rains; no cold comes into the golden camp.&#160; No sieges as now, nor rapines, nor does that city crave the light of a lamp.&#160; It shines from its Founder.&#160; Moreover, Him it obeys; in breadth 12,000 furlongs and length and depth.&#160; It levels its foundation in the earth, but it raises its head to heaven.&#160; In the city before the doors, moreover, sun and moon shall shine; he who is evil is hedged up in torment, for the sake of the nourishment of the righteous.&#160; But from the thousand years God will destroy all those evils.