Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion…
(1885)
“ There is all the greater need why mention should also have been made of Matter, if this has acquired the further sense of Earth, in order that I may be sure that Earth is one and the same name as Matter, and so not claim the designation for merely one substance, as the proper name thereof, and by which it is better known ”
