A Heretical Teacher

Solemus haereticis compendii gratia de posteritate praescribere. In quantum enim ueritatis regula prior, quae etiam haereses futuras renuntiauit, in tantum posteriores quaeque doctrinae haereses praeiudicabuntur, quia sunt quae futurae ueritatis antiquiore regula praenuntiabantur. Hermogenis autem doctrina tam novella est; denique ad hodiernum homo in saeculo, et natura quoque haereticus, etiam turbulentus, qui loquacitatem facundiam existimet et inpudentiam constantiam deputet et maledicere singulis officium bonae conscientiae iudicet. Praeterea pingit in licite, nubit assidue, legem Dei in libidinem defendit, in artem contemnit, bis falsarius, et cauterio et stilo, totus adulter, et praedicationis et carnis, siquidem et nubentium contagio foetet nec ipse apostolicus Hermogenes in regula perseuerauit.  Sed viderit persona, cum doctrina mihi quaestio est. Dominum non alium videtur agnoscere, alium tamen facit quem aliter agnoscit, immo totum quod est deus aufert nolens illum ex nihilo universa fecisse.  A Christianis enim ad philosophos conuersus, de ecclesia in Academiam et Porticum, inde sumpsit  materiam cum domino ponere, quae et ipsa semper fuerit neque nata neque facta nec initium habens omnino nec finem, ex qua dominus omnia postea fecerit. Tertullianus, Adversus Hermogenem

We are accustomed, for the sake of concision, to write against heretics by their lateness. For inasmuch as by rule truth precedes them, which also foretold future heresies, so must later teachings be prejudged as heresies, being those things which the older rule of truth predicted for days to come. Now the teaching of Hermogenes has such novelty. In short, he is a man of the present time, and by his nature a heretic, and turbulent with it, one who regards loquacity as eloquence and thinks impudence to be constancy, and judges that to malign other men is the duty of a good conscience. Besides this he paints what he will, marries continually, affirms the law of God in the promotion of lust, spurns it in his art, falsifies by a double way, with his malice and his pen, is a thorough adulterer, both in doctrine and in the flesh, since he reeks with the disease of many marriages, nor, like the Apostle's Hermogenes 1 has he persevered in the law. But we have gazed only at the character of the man, when it is his teaching I question. He seems not to acknowledge another Lord, though he acknowledges Him in a different way, or rather by this he takes from Him everything which is God, since he will not have it that He made all things from nothing. For, turning from Christians to  philosophers, from the Church to the Academy and the Porch, he learned there how to place matter beside the Lord, as if it had always been, never born, never made, having no beginning at all nor end, from which the Lord afterwards created all things. Tertullian, Against Hermogenes 1 2 Tim 1:15