Tertullian

“ And yet there is absolutely no god at all that is free from such a doubtful plight, so as to be able to avoid the appearance even of being the author of evil, whosoever he is that—I will not say, indeed, has made, but still—has permitted evil to be made by some author or other, and from some source or other. ”

“ Great, in all conscience, [2] must be the blindness of our heretics which leaves them to argue in such a way that they either insist on the belief of another God supremely good, on the ground of their thinking the Creator to be the author of evil, or else they set up Matter with the Creator, in order that they may derive evil from Matter, not from the Creator. ”

“ When He willed that to be which He was Himself unwilling to create, He acted in fact against His very self, [7] inasmuch as He was both willing that that should exist which He was unwilling to make, and unwilling to make that which He was willing should exist. ”