Tertullian

“ I come back to the point of motion, [1] that I may show how slippery you are at every step. Motion in Matter was disordered, and confused, and turbulent. This is why you apply to it the comparison of a boiler of hot water surging over. Now how is it, that in another passage another sort of motion is affirmed by you? For when you want to represent Matter as neither good nor evil, you say: “Matter, which is the substratum (of creation) [2] possessing as it does motion in an equable impulse, [3] tends in no very great degree either to good or to evil.” ”

“ In fact, [8] incorporeal things could not have any locality of their own except in a body, when they have access to a body. [9] But when Matter inclined not to good and evil, it was as corporeal or local essences that it did not incline to them. You err, therefore, when you will have it that good and evil are substances. For you make substances of the things to which you assign locality; [10] but you assign locality when you keep motion in Matter poised equally distant from both sides. [11] ”