Back to Creeds of the Fourth Century

Reference CPG 8558
Date 341
Council Antioch
Ancient Source Athanasius, De Synodis, 24
Modern Edition Hahn, Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Alten Kirche (Breslau: E. Morgenstern, 1897), 186-7.

God knows, whom I call as a witness upon my soul, that so I believe: in God the Father Almighty, the creator and maker of the universe, from whom are all things.

And in His only-begotten Son, Word, Power, and Wisdom, our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things; who has been begotten from the Father before the ages, perfect God from perfect God, and was with God in subsistence, and in the last days descended, and was born of the virgin according to the Scriptures, and was made man, and suffered, and rose again from the dead, and ascended into the heavens, and sat down on the right hand of His Father, and will come again with glory and power to judge the living and the dead, and remains forever.

And in the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete, the Spirit of Truth (John 15:26), which God also promised by His prophet to pour out (Joel 2:28) upon His servants, and the Lord promised to send to His disciples, which also He sent as the acts of the apostles witness.

But If anyone teaches, or holds in his mind, anything besides this faith, be he anathema; or with Marcellus of Ancyra, or Sabellius, or Paul of Samosata, be he anathema, both himself and those who communicate with him.

Translation from Athanasius, De Synodis 24 (NPNF2 vol. 4, p. 461-2)

Adapted by SMT

Last updated: 3-11-2011

No Responses yet