1 Corinthians 15:36

You fool, that which you sow is not made alive, except it die:
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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258
Also in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it have first died."

Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202
For he declares, "That which thou sowest cannot be quickened, unless first it die."

Minucius Felix

AD 250
The sun sinks down and arises, the stars pass away and return, the flowers die and revive again, after their win-try decay the shrubs resume their leaves, seeds do not flourish again. unless they are rotted:

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
And with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once to illustrate the point, as if an objector had plied him with some such question. "Thou fool "says he, "that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die."

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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