Tertullian

“ Moreover, he despises God’s law in his painting, [6] maintaining repeated marriages, [7] alleges the law of God in defence of lust, [8] and yet despises it in respect of his art. [9] He falsifies by a twofold process—with his cautery and his pen. ”

“ We are accustomed, for the purpose of shortening argument, [1] to lay down the rule against heretics of the lateness of their date. [2] For in as far as by our rule, priority is given to the truth, which also foretold that there would be heresies, in so far must all later opinions be prejudged as heresies, being such as were, by the more ancient rule of truth, predicted as (one day) to happen. Now, the doctrine of Hermogenes has this [3] taint of novelty. He is, in short, [4] a man living in the world at the present time ”