If there were increated matter God would seem to lack the power of creating matter, and have borrowed for His work that which was already at hand. But if such matter were disordered, how remarkable it is that matter coeternal with God would not have been able to confer beauty and order upon itself, seeing that it did not receive its substance from a creator but possessed it timelessly itself.
Ambrose of Milan, Hexameron, II, 1,2.