Commodian, Instructions 44
The city will descend from heaven in the first resurrection; we must speak of such a great heavenly structure. We who were devoted will rise again, incorruptible, already then living without death. No pain, no groaning will exist in that place. Those who come under the Antichrist and overcome strong martyrdoms will also live for the whole time. They will receive good things because they suffered evil, and they themselves will produce offspring for a thousand years, marrying. All the revenues of the earth are compared there, because the earth, renewed without end, produces abundantly. In the golden camp there will be no rain, no cold, no sieges as now, no plundering. The city will not need the light of lamps; it shines from its Author. It is also visible there, for it spans twelve thousand stadia wide, long, and thus high. Its root rests on the earth, but its head equals the heaven. In the city, instead of gates, the sun and moon will shine. The evil one is shut up in anguish for the sake of nourishing the just. But after the thousand years God will destroy all things.
Latin
De coelo descendet civitas in anastasi prima: Est quod referamus de fabrica tanta coelesti. Resurgemus illi qui fuimus illi devoti, Et incorrupti erunt, jam tunc sine morte viventes: Sed nec dolor ullus, nec gemitus erit in illa. Venturi sunt illi quoque sub Antichristo qui vincunt Robusta martyria: et ipsi toto tempore vivunt, Recipiuntque bona quoniam mala passi fuere, Et generant ipsi per annos mille nubentes. Comparantur ibi tota vectigalia terrae, Terra quia nimium fundit sine fine novata. Inibi non pluvia, non frigus in aurea castra, Obsidiae nullae, sicut nunc, neque rapinae, Nec lucernae lumen desiderat civitas illa: Ex auctore suo lucet, nec non ibi paret Per duodecim millia stadia lata; longa, sic alta; Radicem in terra, sed caput cum coelo peraequat, In urbe pro foribus autem sol et luna lucebit. Malus in angore septus propter justos alendos. Ab annis autem mille Deus omnia perdet.