Tertullian

“ Of course, M. must be understood to deny that the Christ of the New Testament is the subject of the Old Testament prophecies at all. Hence T.’s anxiety to adduce prophecy as the main evidence of our Lord as being really the Creator’s Christ.↑ Atquin.↑ Vanus.↑ The reader will remember that Tertullian is here arguing on Marcion’s ground, according to whom the Creator’s Christ, the Christ predicted through the O.T., was yet to come. Marcion’s Christ, however, had proved himself so weak to stem the Creator’s course, that he had no means really of checking the Creator’s Christ from coming. ”

“ For he no more restrained the Creator than he resisted His Christ. The Creator still remains such as He really is. His Christ also will come, [8] just as it is written of Him. Why did he [9] come after the Creator, since he was unable to correct Him by punishment? ”