Matter
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Adversus Hermogenem
Hermogenes' proposed eternal, uncreated substance out of which God is said to have made the world.
And yet from where does Hermogenes persuade us that Matter is evil?
nor an evil tree good fruits, since Matter too is nothing but worst.
He cannot say that God used Matter as its Lord for the works of the world, for he could not be Lord of a substance coequal with himself.
Stromata
The concept of unformed matter as a philosophical first principle, discussed and qualified by reference to Plato's term 'not-being'.
"Yes," they say, "but the philosophers lay down matter among the first principles — both the Stoics and Plato and Pythagoras, and Aristotle the Peripatetic too — and not one principle.