Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion…
(1885)
“ Chapter XXXIX.—Their Diversity of Sentiment Affects the Very Central Doctrine of Christianity, Even the Person and Character of the Lord Jesus. This Diversity Vitiates Every Gnostic School.Now, concerning even the Lord Jesus, into how great a diversity of opinion are they divided! One party form Him of the blossoms of all the Æons. [1] Another party will have it that He is made up only of those ten whom the Word and the Life [2] produced ”
