Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book II/Part 24
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24. That He was not to be overcome of death, nor should remain in Hades.
In the twenty-ninth Psalm: “O Lord, Thou hast brought back my soul from hell.”[1] Also in the fifteenth Psalm: “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.”[2] Also in the third Psalm: “I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, because the Lord helped me.”[3] Also according to John: “No man taketh away my life from me; but I lay it down of myself. I have the power of laying it down, and I have the power of taking it again. For this commandment I have received from my Father.”[4]