Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus 2.10
First, they taught us in harmony that God created all things out of nothing. Nothing assisted God; he was his own offspring, needed nothing, and existed before the ages. He willed to make a human being so that he might be known, and therefore he prepared the world for that person. What is generated is in need, but what is ungenerated needs nothing. Since God had his own Word inwardly within his own heart, he generated him after investigating with his own wisdom before all things. He had this Word as a servant of the things generated under him, and through him he made all things.
Greek
Καὶ πρῶτον μὲν συμφώνως ἐδίδαξαν ἡμᾶς, ὅτι ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων τὰ πάντα ἐποίησεν. Οὐ γάρ τι τῷ θεῷ συνήκμασεν· ἀλλ᾿ αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ τόκος ὢν καὶ ἀνενδεὴς ὢν καὶ ὑπάρχων πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἠθέλησεν ἄνθρωπον ποιῆσαι ᾧ γνωσθῇ· τούτῳ οὖν προητοίμασεν τὸν κόσμον. Ὁ γὰρ γενητὸς καὶ προσδεής ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ ἀγένητος οὐδενὸς προσδεῖται.Ἔχων οὖν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ λόγον ἐνδιάθετον ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις σπλάγχνοις ἐγέννησεν αὐτὸν μετὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σοφίας ἐξερευξάμενος πρὸ τῶν ὅλων. Τοῦτον τὸν λόγον ἔσχεν ὑπουργὸν τῶν ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ γεγενημένων, καὶ δι᾿ αὐτοῦ τὰ πάντα πεποίηκεν.