Tertullian

“ However, if they had even failed in any duty towards a god whom they knew not, suppose him now at last to be known still they ought not to have found a jealous god in him who is introduced as unlike the Creator. ”

“ Surely he must be a most mendacious being, who had no other means of enriching his son than by helping himself to another’s property! Or else, [31] if nothing of the Creator’s has been delivered to him by the Father, by what right [32] does he claim for himself (authority over) man? Or again, if man has been delivered to him, and man alone, then man is not “all things.” But Scripture clearly says that a transfer of all things has been made to the Son. ”

“ If you look also into the next words, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things which ye see, for I tell you that prophets have not seen the things which ye see,” [42] you will find that they follow from the sense above, that no man indeed had come to the knowledge of God as he ought to have done, [43] since even the prophets had not seen the things which were being seen under Christ. Now if He had not been my Christ, He would not have made any mention of the prophets in this passage. ”

“ Who shall be invoked as the Lord of heaven, that does not first show Himself [1] to have been the maker thereof? For He says, “I thank thee, (O Father,) and own Thee, Lord of heaven, because those things which had been hidden from the wise and prudent, Thou has revealed unto babes.” [2] What things are these? And whose? And by whom hidden? And by whom revealed? If it was by Marcion’s god that they were hidden and revealed, it was an extremely iniquitous proceeding ”

“ Arguments, therefore, will be of no use for belief in the rival god which may be suitable [41] for the Creator, because it is only such as are unfit for the Creator which will be able to advance belief in His rival. ”

“ If, however, you should interpret this “all” of the whole human race, that is, all nations, then the delivery of even these to the Son is within the purpose of the Creator: [33] “I will give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.” ”