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Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried; and thethird day He rose again, according to the Scriptures;and ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the righthand of the Father. And He shall come again withglory to judge both the quick and the dead, whoseKingdom shall have no end. And I believe in theHoly Ghost the Lord and Giver of Life, whoproceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with theFather and the Son together is worshipped andglorified, who spake by the Prophets. And I believein the one catholic and apostolic church. Iacknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins;and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and thelife of the world to come."This did very well until the fourth EcumenicalCouncil, A. D. 451, when the Chalcedon Creedwas worked up.But very little is said about this creed nowadays;for "the two parties in the council were roused tothe highest pitch of passion, the proceedings,especially during the early sessions, were verytumultuous, until the lay commissioners and thesenators had to urge the bishops to keep order,saying that such vulgar outcries weredisgraceful." However, we give it for what it isworth:"We confess and with one accord teach one and thesame Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, perfect in thedivinity, perfect in the humanity, truly God and trulyman, consisting of a reasonable soul and body;consubstantial with the Father according to theGodhead, and consubstantial with us according to themanhood; in all things like unto us, sin onlyexcepted; who was begotten of the Father before allages, according to the Godhead; and in the last daysthe same was born, according to the manhood, ofMary the Virgin, Mother of God, for us and for oursalvation; who is to be acknowledged one and thesame Christ, the Son, the Lord, the Only Begotten intwo natures, without mixture, change, division orseparation; the difference of natures not beingremoved by their union, but rather the propriety ofeach nature being preserved and concurring in oneperson and in one hypostasis, so that He is notdivided into two persons, but the only Son, the Word,our Lord Jesus Christ, and one and the same person."A merciful oblivion has hidden the name and thedate of authorship of the next creed, the