Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
But he, trusting in his martyrdom, and promising to himself from the retribution of God the reward of resurrection, exclaimed and said, "Thou indeed impotently destroyest us out of this present life; but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for His laws, unto the eternal resurrection of life."
Women received their dead raised to life again. Hebrews 11:35 He here speaks of what occurred in regard to the prophets, Elisha, [and] Elijah; for they raised the dead.
And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. But we have not obtained a Resurrection. I am able however, he means, to show that they also were cut off, and did not accept [deliverance], that they might obtain a better resurrection. For why, tell me, when it was open to them to live, did they not choose it? Were they not evidently looking for a better life? And they who had raised up others, themselves chose to die; in order to obtain a better resurrection, not such as the children of those women.
Here I think he alludes both to John and to James. For beheading is called torturing. It was in their power still to behold the sun. It was in their power to abstain from reproving [sinners], and yet they chose to die; even they who had raised others chose to die themsel...
627. – Having described the things done through faith by the fathers before and during the very entry into the promised land, the Apostle now begins to give examples of those who were in the promised land. But because there were so many, he recites their deeds in a general way and, after giving the names of the fathers, he tells why he must be brief. In regard to this he does three things: first, he gives the names of the fathers and the reason why he passes over their deeds quickly; secondly, he shows what they did by faith (v. 34); thirdly, what they received by faith (v. 33b).
628. – He says, therefore: And what more shall I say? As if to say: I have come to the time they entered the promised land, regarding which a few things remain to be said. For so many things remain to be said that they cannot be explained: For time would fail me to tell of them, i.e., if I wanted to tell of them, there would be insufficient time to do so in a letter, which should be brief. Hence, Jerome wri...
