A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

§ 65. The Victory of the Anti-Nicene Party in the East 345Holy Scriptures, teaches and says that there has been a time, aseason, or age, or being or becoming, before the Son of Godwas begotten, let him be accursed. And if any one says thatthe Son is a creature as one of the creatures, or generated asone of the things generated, or made as one of the things made,and not as the divine Scriptures have handed down each of theforenamed statements; or if a man teaches or preaches anythingelse contrary to what we have received, let him be accursed. Forwe truly and clearly both believe and follow all things from theHoly Scriptures that have been transmitted to us by the prophetsand Apostles.(d) Fourth Creed of Antioch, Socrates, Hist. Ec., II, 18. (MSG,67:221.) Cf. Hahn, § 156.This creed is an approximation to the Nicene creed but withoutthe use of the word of especial importance, homoousios.Valuable critical notes on the text of this and the precedingcreed are to be found in Hahn; as these creeds are to be foundboth in the work of Athanasius on the councils of synodsof Ariminum and Seleucia, in the ecclesiastical history ofSocrates and elsewhere, there is a variety of readings, butof minor significance so far as the essential features areconcerned.We believe in one God, Father Almighty, the creator and makerof all things, of whom the whole family in heaven and upon [315]earth is named; and in his only begotten Son, our Lord JesusChrist, who was begotten of the Father before all ages; God ofGod, light of light, through whom all things in the heavens andupon earth, both visible and invisible were made: who is theword, and wisdom, and power, and life, and true light: who inthe last days for our sake was made [became] man, and wasborn of the holy Virgin; was crucified, and died; was buried,