Tertullian

“ But as for that idle god, who has neither any work nor any prophecy, nor accordingly any time, to show for himself, what has he ever done to bring about the fulness of time, or to wait patiently its completion? If nothing, what an impotent state to have to wait for the Creator’s time, in servility to the Creator! ”

“ God is not mocked.” [52] But Marcion’s god can be mocked; for he knows not how to be angry, or how to take vengeance. “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” [53] It is then the God of recompense and judgment who threatens [54] this. “Let us not be weary in well-doing;” [55] and “as we have opportunity, let us do good.” [56] Deny now that the Creator has given a commandment to do good, and then a diversity of precept may argue a difference of gods. ”

“ He tells us himself clearly enough what he means by “elements,” even the rudiments of the law: “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years” [23] —the sabbaths, I suppose, and “the preparations,” [24] and the fasts, and the “high days.” [25] For the cessation of even these, no less than of circumcision, was appointed by the Creator’s decrees, who had said by Isaiah, “Your new moons, and your sabbaths, and your high days I cannot bear; your fasting, and feasts, and ceremonies my soul hateth;” ”