(7.25) The prophet was lamenting the wretched frailty of our condition, that has no rest in this life and loses everything by death's sudden onset. For the Holy Spirit revealed to him that man would not arise for so long a time, until He should come who would not stitch the old to the new nor join new material to old material [Cf. Matt. 9.16.] but would make all things new, even as He said, "Behold, I make all things new!"[Apoc. 21.5.] For He is the resurrection, [Cf. John 11.25.] the firstborn of the dead,[Cf. Col. 1.18; Apoc. 1.5.] in whom we have all indeed received the prerogative of a future resurrection; yet till now He alone is risen in a perpetual resurrection.
Ambrose of Milan (d. 397), as found in Saint Ambrose: Seven Exegetical Works, Michael P. McHugh trans., Vol. 65 of the Fathers of the Church, a New Translation Series (CUA 1972), p. 345, The Prayer of Job and David
