Tertullian

“ Wherefore, then, do you make his Christ a bridegroom? This is the designation of Him who united man and woman, not of him who separated them. You have erred also in that declaration of Christ, wherein He seems to make a difference between things new and old. You are inflated about the old bottles, and brain-muddled with the new wine; and therefore to the old (that is to say, to the prior) gospel you have sewed on the patch of your new-fangled heresy. I should like to know in what respect the Creator is inconsistent with Himself. ”

“ Behold, you impugn even the law of your god. He unites not in the nuptial bond, nor, when contracted, does he allow it; no one does he baptize but a cælebs or a eunuch; until death or divorce does he reserve baptism. ”

“ And therefore, since His object in making the comparison was to show that He was separating the new condition [32] of the gospel from the old state [33] of the law, He proved that that [34] from which He was separating His own [35] ought not to have been branded [36] as a separation [37] of things which were alien to each other; for nobody ever unites his own things with things that are alien to them, [38] in order that he may afterwards be able to separate them from the alien things. A separation is possible by help of the conjunction through which it is made. ”