Tertullian

“ You make it, however, a common attribute of both of them, that they set themselves in motion by themselves, and that they are ever in motion. What less do you ascribe to Matter than to God? There will be found all through a fellowship of divinity in this freedom and perpetuity of motion. ”

“ You are unwilling that God should seem to be equal to Matter; and then again you say that it has a common condition [3] with God. “For it is impossible,” you say, “if it has nothing in common with God, that it can be set in order by Him.” But if it had anything in common with God, it did not want to be set in order, [4] being, forsooth, a part of the Deity through a community of condition; or else even God was susceptible of being set in order [5] by Matter, by His having Himself something in common with it. ”