Tertullian

“ So, again, there is no one who, from using what belongs to another, is not inferior to him of whose property he makes use; and there is no one who imparts [4] of his own for another’s use, who is not in this respect superior to him to whose use he lends his property. ”

“ Chapter VIII.—On His Own Principles, Hermogenes Makes Matter, on the Whole, Superior to God.
Nay more, [1] he even prefers Matter to God, and rather subjects God to it, when he will have it that God made all things out of Matter. For if He drew His resources from it [2] for the creation of the world, Matter is already found to be the superior, inasmuch as it furnished Him with the means of effecting His works; and God is thereby clearly subjected to Matter, of which the substance was indispensable to Him. For there is no one but requires that which he makes use of ”