“He declares in the plainest manner, that the same Being who was laid hold of, and underwent suffering, and shed His blood for us, was both Christ and the Son of God, who did also rise again, and was taken up into heaven, as he himself [Paul] says: "But at the same time, [it is] Christ [that] died, yea rather, that is…”
Irenaeus, 3th c. — Against Heresies Book III
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9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
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7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
— Romans 6:9 —
10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.