...they say that the Demiurge tried to imitate infinite Nature which is eternal and extraneous to any limit and time of the superior Ogdoades, but he could not reproduce its balance and perpetuity, since he himself was the result of a fault. Thus, in order to approach the eternity of the Ogdoades, he built times and moments and series of innumerable years, believing to imitate, through such an accumulation of times, the infinity of the Ogdoades...
-Hyppolytus, Philosophoumena, VI, 5, 55