For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
And that the Saviour received first-fruits of those whom He was to save, Paul declared when he said, "And if the first-fruits be holy, the lump is also holy"