Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
In the same way the potter, too, has it in his power, by tempering the blast of his fire, to modify his clayey material into a stiffer one, and to mould one form after another more beautiful than the original substance, and now possessing both a kind and name of its own. For although the Scripture says, "Shall the clay say to the potter? "
