Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

You are very zealous to be on sure ground when you refer to the 
Scriptures. But tell me, do you really maintain that our city of 
Jerusalem shall be built up again, and do you really expect that your 
people will gather there joyfully with Christ, together with the 
patriarchs, the prophets, and the men of our nation, and those who became 
proselytes before your Christ came?

Trypho, I am not so mean as to say one thing and think another. I have 
already pointed out to you that many more share this conviction with me. 
We are quite certain that the future will be like this...

I am not on the side of men or human teachings, but of God and his truth. 
If you have ever met any who call themselves Christians but do not share 
this conviction and even make bold to blaspheme the God of Abraham, the 
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and moreover assert that there is no 
resurrection from the dead, saving that after death their souls will be 
taken up to heaven instead, do not take such persons for Christians... 
But I, and every other Christian who has the right beliefs in all things, 
know that there is a resurrection of the flesh, followed by a thousand 
years in the rebuilt, beautified, and enlarged city of Jerusalem, as the 
prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the others announced.	

Justin, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 80.1, 2, 4, 5.

Joe Hine wrote:

> Papias maintained that after the resurrection of the dead there will
> be a period of a thousand years when Christ’s kingdom will be
> established on this earth in physical form.
> 
> He is said to have maintained the mishna [Jewish teaching] of a
> millennium. 
> 
> Papias in Eusebius III.39.11; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 18.
>