Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ This person said that some such thing as water is the generative principle of the universe, and its end;—for that out of this, solidified and again dissolved, all things consist, and that all things are supported on it; from which also arise both earthquakes and changes of the winds and atmospheric movements, [2] and that all things are both produced [3] and are in a state of flux corresponding with the nature of the primary author of generation;—and that the Deity [4] is that which has neither beginning nor end. ”
