Tertullian

“ Grant that their nature is different; assume, too, that their form is not identical,—what matters it so long as their absolute state have but one mode? [2] God is unborn; is not Matter also unborn? God ever exists; is not Matter, too, ever existent? ”

“ For we shall be even gods, if we, shall deserve to be among those of whom He declared, “I have said, Ye are gods,” [6] and, “God standeth in the congregation of the gods.” [7] But this comes of His own grace, not from any property in us, because it is He alone who can make gods. The property of Matter, however, he [8] makes to be that which it has in common with God. Otherwise, if it received from God the property which belongs to God,—I mean its attribute [9] of eternity—one might then even suppose that it both possesses an attribute in common with God, and yet at the same time is not God. ”

“ Truth, however, maintains the unity of God in such a way as to insist that whatever belongs to God Himself belongs to Him alone. For so will it belong to Himself if it belong to Him alone; and therefore it will be impossible that another god should be admitted, when it is permitted to no other being to possess anything of God. Well, then, you say, we ourselves at that rate possess nothing of God. ”