{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/007/0070477.htm","path":"chr/ecf/007/0070477.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/007/0070477.htm","text":"As set forth at Nic\u0153a, 4014 a.d. 325.\nWe believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible:\nAnd in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, only begotten, that is, of the substance of the Father;\nGod of God; Light of light; very God of very God; begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father,\nBy whom all things were made, both things in heaven and things in earth:\nWho for us men and for our salvation came down, and was incarnate, and was made man:\nHe suffered, and rose again the third day:\nAnd shall come again to judge the quick and the dead.\nAnd in the Holy Ghost, etc. 4015\nAnd those who say There was a time when He was not, or that Before He was begotten He was not, or that He was made out of nothing; or who say that The Son of God is of any other substance, or that He is changeable or unstable,\u2014these the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes.\nAs Authorized at Constantinople, a.d. 381.\n(b) Begotten of the Father before all worlds.\n(c) By the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary.\n(d) Was crucified also for us, under Pontius Pilate,\n(f) Sitteth on the right hand of the Father,\n(g) Whose kingdom shall have no end.\n(h) The Lord, the Giver of life,\nWho proceedeth from the Father; 4016\nWho with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; p. 525\nIn one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.\nWe acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins.\nWe look for the resurrection of the dead,\nAnd the life of the world to come. Amen.\nThis Nic\u00e6no-Constantinopolitan Creed was solemnly ratified by the Council of Ephesus (a.d. 431) with the decree 4017 that \u201cNo one 4018 shall be permitted to introduce, write, or compose any other faith, 4019 besides that which was defined by the holy Fathers assembled in the city of Nice, with the presence of the Holy Ghost.\u201d\nIt was the old Creed of Jerusalem slightly amended, and made the liturgic symbol of Christendom, and the exponent of Catholic orthodoxy. Compare the Creed of C\u00e6sarea, Burbidge, p. 334. But see this whole subject admirably illustrated for popular study by Burbidge, Liturgies and Offices of the Church, p. 330, etc., London, Bells, 1885.\n524:4015\nHere the \u03ba.\u03c4.\u03bb\u0345. is to be understood, as in the liturgies where a known form is begun and left imperfect. The clauses (see Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechet., lect. xviii.) are found in the Creed of Jerusalem, thus: \u201cIn one baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, and in one Holy Catholic Church; and in the resurrection of the flesh; and in eternal life.\u201d\n524:4016\nThe addition of the Filioque, in the West, is theologically true, but of no authority here. See Pearson, On the Creed.\n525:4017 525:4018\nNo one. This re-affirms the action of Nic\u00e6a itself, and forbids the imposition of anything novel as a creed by any authority whatever. Nothing, therefore, which has not been set forth by Nicene authority (or by the supplementing and co-equal councils of the whole Church, from the same primitive sources) can be a creed, strictly speaking. It may be an orthodox confession, like the Quicunque Vult, but cannot be imposed in terms of communion, any more than the Te Deum\n525:4019\nAny other faith. The composition and setting north of another faith, as terms of communion, by Pius IV., bishop of Rome, a.d. 1564, and its acceptance, with additional dogmas, at the opening of the Vatican Council (so-called), a.d. 1869, brought the whole Papal communion under this anathema of Ephesus.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VII: The Nicene Creed: The Nicene Creed","type":"page"}