De Resurrectione

Concerning Lazarus and the rich man, one may be perplexed: the simpler ones think these things have been said as though both receive, along with their bodies, the rewards for what they have done in life; but the more precise ones, since after the resurrection no one is left in life, do not think these things happened at the resurrection. For the rich man says, "I have five brothers, and so that they may not come to this place of torment, send Lazarus to report to them what is here." And through these things they seek the tongue, the finger, the bosom of Abraham, and the reclining. And perhaps the form of the soul, at the moment of departure, being of the same form as the dense and earthly body, can be understood in this way. At any rate, if someone who has fallen asleep is ever seen appearing, he is seen in the same form as when he had flesh. Then: But Samuel also, appearing, as is evident, being visible, shows that he was clothed with a body; especially if we are compelled by the proofs to declare the substance of the soul to be incorporeal and to deny this. But also the rich man being punished, and the poor man resting in the bosom of Abraham, before the coming of the Savior and before the end of the age, and therefore before the resurrection, are said, the one to be punished in Hades, the other to rest in the bosom of Abraham, teaching that even now, at the departure, the soul uses a body. From the works of Methodius. Having spoken (Origen) to declare the Lord as saying, "Those who will attain the resurrection will then be as angels," where the Sadducees test him, he added:

The angels, being without flesh in the utmost blessedness, are for this reason also in glory; and we, therefore, who are to be made equal to the angels, must necessarily be stripped of flesh, just as they are.