Tertullian, Against Marcion 3.24

You say, 'Rather, I hope from him for what he himself does as testimony to the diversity of God's kingdom, an eternal and heavenly possession.' But your Christ promises the Jews their former state through the restoration of the land, and after the course of life, refreshment in the bosom of Abraham among the dead. What a fine God—if he gives back, now placated, what he took away in anger. Oh, your God: he both destroys and heals, creates evils and makes peace. Oh, a God merciful even to the dead. But we will take up the bosom of Abraham at its proper time. As for the restoration of Judea, which the Jews themselves hope for exactly as it is described, led on by the names of places and regions—how an allegorical interpretation applies spiritually to Christ, to the church, and to its habit and fruit—pursuing that at length belongs to another work, the one we entitled On the Hope of the Faithful; and it would be idle here, because the question concerns not an earthly promise but a heavenly one.