Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion…
(1885)
“ Everything will be open to suspicion which transgresses a rule. Now the primary order of all things will not allow that the Father should come after the Son in recognition, or the Sender after the Sent, or God after Christ. Nothing can take precedence of its own original in being acknowledged, nor in like manner can it in its ordering. ”
