Tertullian

“ Even the Demiurge has a Christ of His own—His natural Son. An animal, in short, produced by Himself, proclaimed by the prophets—His position being one which must be decided by prepositions; in other words, He was produced by means of a virgin, rather than of a virgin! ”

“ On the ground that, having descended into the virgin rather in the manner of a passage through her than of a birth by her, He came into existence through her, not of her—not experiencing a mother in her, but nothing more than a way. ”

“ In like manner, his mother’s seed did not admit of being injured, being equally exempt from all manner of outrage, [6] and being undiscovered even by the Demiurge himself. The animal and carnal Christ, however, does suffer after the fashion [7] of the superior Christ, who, for the purpose of producing Achamoth, had been stretched upon the cross, that is, Horos, in a substantial though not a cognizable [8] form. In this manner do they reduce all things to mere images—Christians themselves being indeed nothing but imaginary beings! ”