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REV.
THE
STEWART MEANS
LONDON
first
to place
Apostolic, the
the
Nicene-Constantinopolitan,
side, as
full
as
De Romanae
Usher,
Church
is
aliisque
orientalibus
solitis
ecclesiae
in
prima
Diatriba,
catechesei
Next
1647.
et
baptismo proponi
come
the
names
of
"
"
seded
in
842 by Hahn
Bibliothek.
of
labour
by
Heurtley
During the
been given
Harmoniu
last
to this
Symbolica
the
it is
More
that
it
was only
critical care,
unbeachtete
Alte
Taufsymbols und
labours enabled Hahn
father s Bibliothek in
His
of his
Among German
1877.
Geschichie
1879.
der Glaubensregeln,
des
scholars,
first
volume of
his
Dogmengeschichte,
apostolische Sytnbolum, and
above all, Kattenbusch, have taken a share in these in
Zahn, Das
vestigations.
first
In 1894.
t ^ie
justifies
awaited.
Among
English scholars
may be mentioned
Inquiries
on
Creeds in
General,
1872;
Lumby, The
is,
after the
Protestants
century,
that
definitely
of the
Yet
also certain
is
it
West
that in the
had been
enjoyed
in
as
strict
sense
three
first
ancient
spoke
symbols.
great
much
five
at
the
word,
as
In
the
however,
the
centuries earlier.
of
least
"
predicate
"ecumenical
1876
and, above
all,
symbol
Dissertations,
The
Two
Formulas of Faith
Roman
the pre-Catholic
in
Das
Opp.
apostol.
ii.
edit,
i,
2,
1878
Glaubensbekenntniss,
(cf.
26 te
A.
Harnack,
Auf.
1893).
made
History of
Dogma.
In
to
ated here.
1
Kollner, Symbolik,
i.
ed. 1837, p.
5.
Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed,
for
in
nor
Athanasian
the
confession
of
official
faith
recogni
to an Apostolic
any as Apostolic
2
in
In the West,
confessional
writings
of the
Gass, Symbolik
Das
Kattenbusch,
2
d.
i.
S.
i,
Sguropolis, Hist.
a-rfj./3oXoi
gedrncktc
1869,
Condi. Florent.
Rob. Creyghton,
oi8a.fj.fv
S.
16
ff.;
Cf. the
edit.
1894.
06
ff.
1660:
ly/xeis
orre
TMV aTroo-roAum
Quellen
2.
Gesch.
by Sylvester
sect. vi. c. 6, p.
150,
^o/xr, oure
Taufsymbols,
ii.
"
"
Apostolic
and
lished
of the
nation
West
use in the
in
as a desig
Nicene-Constantinopolitan
among Greeks
The three
who had become latinised.
Creed
nor
this
is
only
West
Symbolum Apostolicum
in
agrees
Receptus
essential
all
We
").
in
the
possess
a form which
points
("Textus
shall therefore
have
to
THE
"
"
Textus
can,
Receptus
with
of the
1
S.
fifth
Caspari,
115, n. 88;
century.
ibid.
iii.
\.
1866,
But there
S.
1875, S. 12,
242,
n.
22.
n.
is
45;
a strong
ii.
1869,
not previously
in official
symbol was
is
at all events,
come
Eastern
shown
provincial
ally differ
to the
and
have been
churches
the
century.
Church,
to
fifth
scarcely existed in
in
ibid.
can
be
in
various
West during
the
"
"textus
we may
its
S.
receptus
infer
that
of
it
Kattenbusch,
the
use
in
did not,
West from
symbols
it
from the
Apostolicum,
As
middle of the
189
fifth
its
ff.,
century, and
present shape,
who
curiously dis
putes this view, has hitherto only partly stated his reasons
for dissenting
from
it.
complete
In
year 500.
the
of Aries.
that
time
first
detail,
every
The immediate
Caesarius symbol,
appears for
it
shape
a sermon
in
of Caesarius
predecessor of
as the case
or,
of the Apostolicum as
we have
may
is
it,
be,
very
it
reconstructed.
factorily
On
the
satis
other
Roman symbol
Creed
Apostles
the
in
is
direction
Bratke
in
the
Berne
discovered
Codex,
S.
Pseudo-Augustin.
164
Halm
symbol
-
ff.,
cf.
also
Symbole,
2 te Auf.
or,
N. 645, saec.
vii.
(\/A
S.
as the
ibid.
by
which
Hililiothek der
is in
n.
by the
represented
of our
1586*".
1895, S. 153).
36).
case
may
Roman symbol
additions
"
passus,"
These
nam."
four
only by the
and
"
additions
the
the
four
ceptus,
torum
oldest
all
and
etc."
are later.
"
terrae
and
Against
Apostles
"
mortuus
as
it
influence of
1
"con-
Creatorem
of
origin
des
the
Roman
symbol, inas
Rome
As
et
coeli
that
texts
of
it
the
in
later
to these texts,
Taufsymbols, Bd.
iii.
cf.
times
Gallicanum-textus
sanc
much
whilst
"
Roman
the
are
they
"communionem
"
in
lie
Creed and
that
additions,
"
ad
vitam aeter-
differs
It
descendit
"
"catholicam,"
inferos,"
and
Caspari, Quellen
s.
47/8,
Geschichte
we may oppose
found
not
Ages, that
Rome
in
is
to say,
it
was
Middle
the
until
centuries after
many
had
existence
its
been
attested
by
fifth,
Creed
stantinopolitan
in
and
in
Rome
in
the
so far as the
that,
was known
in
Rome
it
was not
Our Apostles
Creed
points
very
identical
plainly
to
Southern
Caspar!,
iii.
S.
201
f.,
"
226,
textus
ii.
S.
14
receptus"
f.
n.
88.
io
of the
Western Europe
in
soon accompanied by
1
wonderful
such
the
That
origin.
than
another
"textus
the
form
fifth
must
receptus,"
later creed or
a-vfj./3o\i]
between
or
plexio,"
"
and
"indicium,"
distinction
sug
has a history
the
to
and that
the
summa
its
text
origin to a
also
bears
"
or
that
the sense
Hahn,
new
involves a confusion
which
between
1
be
a-v/j./3o\ov,
in
the
preceded
symbol traced
o-u/z/SoX?;
of
"collatio"
meaning of
it
have
The
it.
symbol
from
century,
its
"Apostolic"
origin should
recent
of
legend
"
brevis
ft.
com-
is,
"signum,"
not
only of a
Christians and
46
the
non-
between
and
or
Christians,
Christians
The name
"
"
West
Symbolum
in
The legend
century.
twelve Apostles,
in
their separation,
in
East, not
the
in
of
beginning
4
found
first
is
Cyprian;the
after
until
tessera
militum,"
the
"
the
sixth
that each of
the
contributed a phrase to
Caspar!,
ii.
S. 88.
Ep. 69 ad Magnum,
Caspar!,
S.
i.
24
c.
tenbusch, S.
S.
ff.,
t/i
Hahn,
47
f.
Monrad, Die
s/.
\-
d/><
Symb.
S.
retained
it.
ff.
37
Bel.
Konfessionskunde,
4
cf.
S.
iii.
7.
ff.
i.
S.
Kollner,
erste
As
28.
n.
f.
Caspari,
Ikl.
iii.
to
i.
S.
various
the
S. 2
332
f.
n.
ft .;
26,
Kat-
ff.
//</.
S. 7
f.
I<?ontr(rverse
Inn be nsbckcnntnisscs
Caspari,
iiber d.
ii.
S.
93
f.
Urspntng
Kattenbusch, Apost.
nevertheless
12
THE APOSTLES
-
to point to a
confirml^>n
above hazarded as
the
to
by a glance
at the
its
of the conjecture*
is
earlier
form.
also suggested
clear
strikingly confirmed
history.
II
THE
fact
that the
between
period
also
partly
later,
religious services
Roman Church
the
in
and
A.D.,
used a symbol
in
in
its
very
Usher
particularly
At Rome
investigations,
proved by Caspari
this
s researches.
in
which
it
Rome.
1
The
idea of
to
the
in
this led to
Peter brought
its
have
it
to
Apostolic origin
2
Usher,
op.
cit.
14
We
find
Roman
creed,
complete
existing
1
number of
shorter
this
in
quite independently of
texts,
could be at least
it
partially reconstructed.
1
of
named
here
a Greek text
Roman
to the
Ancyra
in the Epistle of
may be
Marcellus
i.
cit.
p.
S.
iii.
Biblioth.
ix.
the
16;
(Hahn,
The
161-203).
35, in
the
Cottoniana,
saec.
stani,
S.
f.,
Latin text
a MS.
in
is
iii.
Caspari,
in the
iii.
in the British
162
S.
f.
Museum,
Creeds, 1875, p.
161
f.)
initiandos, attributed to
to
Maximus
T.
vii.
p.
30
1784
it
f.,
S.
A,
in
17);
of about
and Apostle?
ad
Ambrose
of Turin (A.
xx.,
or,
as the case
Mai, Script.
Vet.
may be,
Nova Coll.
p.
f.,
Hahn,
makes
S.
Codex Laudianus
Opp.
Hahn, ibid. 15
Caspari, op.
28-161), and also in a MS. of the
;
Hahn,
20;
Caspari,
ii.
S.
48
ff.,
who
must be regarded as
text
Rome
for
was not
was
in
Greek.
in
It
text
What happened
is
here,
what happened
in
until
as a parallel form.
then,
15
The
sive
cf.
and
S.
ed.
Append,
Cypr.
do not seem
7 f
290
ff.;
me
to
Symb. Apost.
1682
see
Symbol
in the
Opp.
Hahn, 14
epist. of
iv.
Caspari,
24th
conclu
in
Leo
18).
text
in
my
treatise
gramme,
Beitr.
Giessen, 1892
z.
a recension of the
authorities
side,
-
are
Gesch.
des
altkirchl. Taufsymbols,
Latin text
is
also given.
Caspari,
the use
iii.
S.
where
The
best
On
ff.,
of Greek in the
267-466
upon the
other.
Roman
liturgical
Church,
cf.
use of the
16
Greek form
avrov rov
text
Hiareva)
Kal
roKpdropa
vijdevra
the
is
following
et9
^Irjcrovv
rov tcvpiov
Tri/eu/xaro?
shorter
or
etV
Xpicrrbv
fiovoyevr/,
e/c
of the
dylov
rov yev-
J/JLWV,
teal
vibv
(TOJ/)
Map/a?
TTJS
Kal rafyevra,
ve/cpa)v,
ev Be^ia
teal
rplrrj rj^epa
dvaftavra
et9
avaa-Tavra
Kal
et?
etc
(TWV)
rou? ovpavovs,
ve/cpovs,
criav,
TIJ
itplvai
fa
KK\TJ
The legend
as early
The
of Ambrose.
was aware of
articles
its
fact
that
the
writer
text
in
the
West during
passim, and
iii.
466-510.
articles
in three
The
however, appears
tetrads,
It
article
my
in
arose,
twelve
groups of
division into
nowhere
opinion, from
else.
the third
appearing
as
members
each.
Kattenbusch
in his
four
Pro
gramme
work
17
his
modified.
statements on
point
are
however, convince
cannot,
the
intended.
No
to
twelve articles
in
clumsy as to divide
+ 7 + 4,
it
into
all
or,
rather, 2
+ 6 + 4.
did
not
1
s. 8
Cf. Loofs,
At
ff.
/.
GgA. 1894,
ti.
S.
675.
i8
later
and longer
Roman
creed, that
is,
the
it
son
published, and
first
where
to
about
it
is
also
proved else
who wrote
however,
all
later,
that he
composition of the
manu
Rufinus,
knows nothing
knows
is
the
common
Roman symbol by
the
But he
maiorum.
was doubtless,
Rufinus
testify,
Roman
what
According to
earlier
some
See
fidelity.
is
symbol
2
Rufin.
ipsis
Roman
"
I.e.
17
p.
sermonum
puto,
Verum priusquam
2)
mos
et utique
reddere
quod
Migne)
(see
est,
to
sumpsit
fidelium populo
Augustine, Confess.
in fide,
Siric.
non admittit
P. n.
Credatur symbolo
quotation
from
auditus."
(Opp. T.
56, according
"
illic
in
P.
ii.
i.
apostolorum,
ecclesia
servat."
ulla
Ambrose, Ep. 42 ad
p.
tamen urbis
1125, ed
incipiam de
non importune
In ecclesia
symbolum
;
I.
quod
viii. c.
by
audiente,
asserted
bishops Celestin
et
this
commonendum
exordium,
of
origin
independently
by the
Jerome,
1
Apostolic
19
custodit et
Caspari,
Rev.
22.
ii.
18
detrahendum,
S.
ff.
nihil
quod Romana
ecclesia
Petrus sedit, et
communem
tenet,
Ep. ad Pammach. de
28 (Opp. T.
ii.
Hoc autem
p. 386, ed.
ubi
Migne).
symbolum,
primus apostolorum
sententiam eo
errorib.
est
detulit."
Joannis Hierosol.
n.
20
(422-431), -Sixtus
III.
Leo
(431-440),
tj.
The
Roman
Church.
it
Finally,
may be
also be claimed
Roman
Although he was
first
symbol.
official
which
in
who
was baptized
held to the
in
Roman
In the
identical.
S.
94
References in Caspar!,
f.;
Hahn,
46, n.
163.
ii.
S.
108
f.
n.
78
cf.
we
iii.
21
essential
all
In view of these
facts
fourth
the
points.
it
and the
first
extensive use in
with
identical
one
the
mentioned
the
Ambrose was
it.
only
one
who
certainly
expressly
protested
regarded
to take
it
as an attack
not
He
account of contemporary
difficulties
in
be.
"He
Caspar!,
ii.
S.
264
f.
Hahn,
21.
Nestorian controversy.
22
The
Apostles."
Julius
shows us
330-340
one
in
which
sifted,
epistle
use in
still
that
A.D., this
of Marcellus to
Rome;
require
be criticised
and
of certainty to
the
Among
century.
s tractate
De
represented
the
Trinitate?
epistles
and
official
Rome. 2
Roman symbol
Epistle
and
as
of Marcellus
in the
in
cal investigation.
1
Hahn,
Cf. e.g.
7.
Athan.
De
c.
26.
23
involve
and
the
combination
The most
important
are as follow
1.
complicated
very
How
different
of these
facts.
questions
the shorter
is
Roman symbol
related to the
used,
of
investigations
(800),
churches
until
the Nicene-Constantinopolitan
How
the shorter
is.
Apostles
3.
latter
is
to say, to the
When
How
why was
it
it
from the
displaced
symbol originate
4.
Roman symbol
Creed as we know
by the
by
the (Gallican)
2.
out
is
the shorter
Roman symbol
24
related
to
Eastern
the
nopolitan symbols
5.
How
is
pre-Constanti-
the shorter
Roman symbol
we
three centuries
These
only in
five questions
can be separated
As
a matter of fact
abstract*).
answer
that
to every
In what follows
definite
one of them
and separate
is
impossible.
attempted.
Ill
the
1
century,
fourth
to
enables
us
to the period
the
sixth
(seventh)
to
make
six
5,
Hahn,
fullest
In
20-45
from
Caspar!,
appreciation, however,
and
in
is
is
arrangement of
Bd.
in
symbols found
know
very
ii.
and
The
iii.
S.
Kattenbusch,
ff.
is still
59-
The number
increasing.
of
We
for the
has discussed
fii.
S.
128
f.],
26
fundamental
exhibit the
all
type as
same
Roman
the shorter
symbol.
The
2.
more
the
Roman
of
Western symbol
shorter a
it
closely
The
symbol.
shortest
are
almost,
with
it.
3.
more
The
it
not
if
later a
is,
symbols
the
altogether,
identical
Western symbol
varies, as a rule in
1
West
is,
the
consequence of
Roman.
With
"
et
invisibili
S.
impassibili,"
202
Hardly
ever
by
and
the
30
ff.
The
There
Irish.
omissions
f.).
and Prankish,
in
on
Hahn,
the
symbol
of
in
in
view of the
to the
article
of the
Aquileia
omnipotente,"
"carnis,"
same
the
"remissionem
carnis
in
symbol
the
"
huius,"
the third
the
(this
in
as an
article
position
aeternam
per
"
ecclesiam
first
of
peccatorum, resurrectionem
vitam
et
in
the plerophoric
addition to
of
"
27
the
Carthaginian
arrangement, however,
sanctam
Church
may be ex
of a
are
to
directly
be
extensions
polemical
nature,
but
to
be necessary
in
the
interest
Creed.
first
the formula
Virgine
"
l
:
Maria,"
in
1
Hahn,
42.
28
and Ravenna
the formula
conceptus dc
"
M."
in ffce
the differen
"
tiation of
"
crucifixus
into
"
passus
"
crucifixus
tion of
the
in
"
and
as well as in
tion of
Augustine
Rietz
and
Carthaginian
aeternam
so
character of the
"
and
symbol
symbols
that of
"vitam
the addi
catholicam,"
Spanish
for
example,
in
in
Faustus
ot
The fundamental
on.
symbols
not altered
is
the
The
intermediate
steps
may be regarded
between
however,
is
the
as
shorter
This con
not so important as
29
the
West
by
the
in the third
which
additions
they
severally
character.
the
namely,
distinguished,
readily
the
Italian,
lican type
which
Creed, one of
that
it
is
is
its
As
seen
in
for the
our Apostles
distinguishing features
by such
characterised
cal
earlier Oriental
as the case
heaven
"catholic."
Kattenbusch,
between the
S.
histori
in
the
such as
189
ff.,
creator of
"suffered,"
"died,"
hell";
The
"
Gallican type in
194
flf.
makes no
is
not correct.
its
distinction
last
Western Europe
be,
earth,"
"descended into
cate
is
may
and
Gal
in
3o
form
final
or
richest
symbols
not
is
the
but
in
so
in
it
gives
its
as
far
What
of
longest
it
the
Western
its
historical
certainly
peculiar character
is
is
so.
the
lacks
all
those
touches
finishing
or
present
symbols of provincial
other
churches, such as
"
invisibilem
et
impas-
"
sibilem
in
the
first
creaturarum visibilium
torem"
and
"Deum"
"unum,"
in the
et invisibilium condi-
in
second
the
;
baptismum," in
etc."
first
and second
"resurrexit
"omnium
article;
vivus,
gloria venturus,
the third
"huius
carnis,
is,
final
of our
distinguishing
features
of
the
old
features
all
exhibits
It
symbol.
style,
same
the
and nevertheless
became
that
31
attached
to
the
Roman
its
same
classical elaboration
it
was
The
5.
less
by the church
cant
its
The symbols
relatively far
6.
duced
If all
variations of
Roman
of the Gallican
removed from
signifi
symbol.
Church are
it.
to an archetype,
Roman
creed.
difficulty
32
What
conclusions are
The
we
to
draw from
evidence
justifies
Roman
these observations ?
longer
of
faith
all
and
the Western
that
(2)
the
gradually de
characterised
originally
symbol.
place in
From
the
shorter
Rome.
the
first
conclusion
we may
Roman
all
the
Western churches
fact
originally
Church,
its
own
for
33
Roman symbol?
Accordingly we must
refer the Roman symbol to a date at
1
least
as
early
as
the
which
200,
year
by a comparison between
established
is
shorter
the
Western confessions of
side,
this conclusion
Moreover,
faith
all
the
on the one
and, further, by
Roman symbol
The
are
Eastern
distinguished
flexibility,
one and
by freedom
richness of expression.
1
Cyprian, Hahn,
See Hahn,
op.
confessions
baptismal
in
all
and by
form,
As
by great
the Eastern
28, 29.
cit.
pp. 61
3
ff.,
pp.
183
ff.
Caspari,
34
much
it
Apostles,
and
freer spirit,
fession
in its
gave expression
same time
to
its
theology and to
heresy
speculative
was mostly
It
heresy.
its
baptismal con
at
interest
in
in
Thus
originated.
Eastern
the
in
the place
tional
anti
polates
anti
Gnostic,
inter
Monarchian,
Hort,
ii.
S.
Two
ff.,
iii.
S.
Dissertations,
46
ii.,
f.
On
Swainson,
op. at. p.
60
the Constantinopolitan
p.
73
and, above
all,
Kattenbusch,
S.
216
ff.
"
The
Oriental
35
symbols
by inserting dogmatic
historical
or
two,
or
expressions
by
in
question
by uniting the
the
expressing
somewhat
simple
fuller
article
in
manner,
or,
finally,
tain
whole
articles
baptismal confessions.
the
result
some
in
degree,
Eastern
a subjective,
more or
less
in doctrine,
As
some
Western
a general
less
and dog
wear, moreover, a
They
less
exhibit,
in
reflective
parti-coloured
the
confessions
higher and
matic character.
in
wanting
appearance,
prolix, diffuse
and
which, as
is
well
known, was
36
in
the
Was
East,
much
more
theories than
in
the West.
In the
Not
movement.
until the
adoption of the
was
it
The Nicene
completely altered.
it.
From about
the
home
of
orthodox
in
Church as lay
jurisdiction.
From
conservatism
in
day
it
sively,
Nicene Creed.
This state
37
the
of
Eastern symbols
and
universality,
much may be
considerable number of
That a
Eastern symbols
Yet
this
not
all,
Roman
in
See,
Hahn,
-
e.g.,
also
i.
shorter
the
the
following
Tria-revo^ev is
almost
many symbols
it
is
of Gregory Thaumaturgus,
the symbol
Hut, as
S.
in
my
ff.),
answer
there
to
is
Caspari,
ii.
S. 44-88.
previously
Cremer s polemic
no universal,
range
114.
maintained
1892,
are based
with
but
3
its
affinity
symbol,
but certainly
Palestine
exhibits
their
in
to
fundamental type.
said: (i)
it
difficult to
istics
century, renders
fifth
(Leipzig,
independent
38
article.
and second
article eva
to Kvpiov.
3.
added
is
In the
2.
first
In the
first
to Qkov
and
Heaven and
of
is,
of the words
position
In
/jLovojevij.
words Xp.
rbv
almost
a-Trep/jiaros
is
added
to
the
In
the
of
the
second
cally
there,
or
the
This
in
the
order
and
Frequently
phrase
the
et?
after
only
something
^/JLWV
"etc
similar,
yevvijOevra
separate
is
/rrX.
clauses
run
together,
the West,
asyndeti-
article
polysyndetically
KOI
and
5.
East
6.
beginning
preserved,
Kvpiov.
Aa/S/8,"
to
first
tcvpiov.
everywhere
added
The
X^>.
stand
rbv
4.
as follows
follow,
povoyevi}
the
is
things,
Western symbol
the
Itjo:
them comes
is
I^cr.
all
Earth.
in
is
God
article,
are
affirmations
regarding
39
juxtaposition
tences.
The
7.
modified
in
rpirp
form.
are
ilpepa
almost
is
rcupevra
Oevra
the
is
used.
it
appears
The words
8.
article
"
coming
again,"
the preceding.
added
third
ayiov,
or
the
appears
often added.
in
stands after
12.
is
TO
TO TrpofajriKov or
concerning
Sog^s or
epxapevov.
predicate
dva\rj(f>-
co-ordinated with
the reading
T. a. TT.
is
is
Mera
11.
to 7rd\w
article
similar
has
The
-rfj
dvacrrdvra.
after
placed
ID.
sen
Uovriov
e-rrl
9.
is
teal
relative
rov
article
IltAaTou (TTavpajOevra
entirely lacking
of
here,
13.
Where
In
the
TO
7rvev/j.a
something
The
Ka0o\iK>j
eV8oa><?
etc/cX^o-ia
after
the
the former
Western symbols,
it
Baptism
is
"Ecclesiam."
14.
40
The words
15.
alwiov
farjv
found
are
almost everywhere.
All these characteristics, however, attach
to
of symbols
set
symbol of Nicaea,
on that on which
which Eusebius
or,
dependent on the
as the case
was based
it
(the
may
be,
symbol
Council at
on
Lucian
s.
is
be open
duced
The
to challenge
if
by Eusebius were
the
baptismal
the
connexion
in
which
community makes
that
1
it
is
it
in
Eusebius
But
com
As Hort and
is
abridged.
Both assume
It
41
ought, rather, to be
not,
according
to
Antioch
of
formulas
the
may
of
Caesarea
at
instruction
its
heard
confession,
it
such
Any
rebutted
strongly
by
the
is
TTHTTfvofjiev
may be
KCU
made
which
certain
but
baptismal
is
very
contention
fact
that
article
is
in
simply
evidently
2
faith
divisions
three
questionable.
to Christ
the course
a definite creed
possessed
of
consisting
This
That the
whether,
is
at
the
in
be,
in
the
but
ovo
familiar
congregation
existing
ab
course,
as the case
or,
the
for
expressly
$eoi>
Aoyov
42
The assumption
that
is
There
a
is
follows,
in
ending
Eusebius regards
baptize.
this as
what preceded
V7rdp%eiv
Kal viov
et?
TO
rovrwv
7riCTTvovT<>,
a\r)6u>s
ayiov,
7Tvevfj,a
it
irarepa
as
elvai
Kal
jrarepa
aXr}0w<;
Ka0w<;
KijpvyfjLa
eVacrroz/
belong
much
eavrov
TOL<>
yua^ra?
6i7re
This
is
et?
TO
as well as Lucian
went on
why Eusebius
to the baptismal
it
in extcnso
Cp. Lucian
KT\.
rov Trarpos
ovofia
symbol.
his
he
new
formula
to
the
Caesarean symbol
a
if
the
is
community,
particular
But
community.
43
we know
then
ancient
communal symbols
in
East
the
is
four
by
considerations
confirmed by
the
curious
one
curious
equally
where such
to
is
and
2
of
Aphraates.
me
unassailable
as these can
"symbols"
be constructed, there
as yet no
in
communal
existence
Eastern Church
from Pontus
(2)
to
in
Egypt.
the free
By
Hahn,
in
114.
Kattenbusch,
S.
249.
the
East.
44
With
we
fifth
If
century.
in existence,
see-this
down
to
any old
which had
generations,
how
acceptance of creeds
plained
By
(3)
the
in
in
the
formation
the
and
East be ex
above-mentioned
is
(4)
By
uncertainty about
the
prevailed
in
the
Even
as late as the
irpocrOeivai
K.
it
first
Antiochian formula
runs as follows:
Tricrrevo^ev
a}9 alwviov.
teal
irepi
el
Be
<raptco<;
45
may
Roman symbol
is
perfectly clear.
It
The
divisions.
is
division
first
"God
is
its
is
Almighty";
Begotten
and
Son"
"Our
Lord,"
gives
gift,
the third
is
conceived of as a
associated with
it,
which
faith
brings.
Of
of
faith
come
into question
Holy Ghost.
derived
from
all
or else
of belief in
the
Nicene-Constantino-
46
politan,
find
third
article
71, 72,-
a complete form,
in
we
the
handed by Arius
to the
of Cyril of Jerusalem,
Emperor,
in
in that
the symbol of
of Epiphanius.
and
in the
These
most
is
it
visible
in
longer symbol
five
symbols evi
common
root,
reconstruction.
which
1
it
To which
belong.
3
Hahn,
But
exhibits
in
with
68.
As
itself to
old
which
against Kattenbusch,
Roman
68, 69, 70,
i.
S. 330.
symbol
of
the
all
The
rest.
daughter or the
That
relationship
of the
sister of the
question,
is
so
Roman
it
47
as
one.
is
out
Roman symbol
the
form.
for
regarding
it
fourth
whilst
century,
the old
place
Now,
earlier.
a century
as regards the
more than
symbols which
all,
it
is
even
in
attributes
possess
article or
christological
certainly
Roman symbol
Eastern
twenty
we can
way
in
none
which
are accumulated,
we
are
Still,
48
the
however,
formula
tcpdrajp,
logical
section,
Moreover
common
Roman
with the
they
almost
all
and second.
first
certain grammatical
common
symbol.
in
possess,
to
them
as the eva in
Finally,
and
all.
there
is
literary character
Hence
the simplest
the
christo-
exhibit
unmistakably
certain affinity
Travro-
-rrar^p
0eo<?
by the
Roman
symbol,
is
was,
however,
"
christological
rule,"
an
and
old,
also
flexible
old,
cere
One God
in
His Only
Christ.
confession
from
Apart
of
Gregory
the
49
singular
Thaumaturgus,
the
apparent
the
in
very
extravagances
of
we may
say
it,
it
is
third
events
all
Palestine,
in
began
in
seems,
to
that the
the
know and
in
point
Syria-
formation of symbols
East,
where men
theological
At the period
of
some
at
value
circles
the
first,
it
had come
Roman
symbol.
Church
direct
also
and
came
full
to be appreciated.
acceptance of the
The
Roman
(i) the
with a christological
into conflict
50
lished
(2)
by the desire
to
fuller
give
"
expression to the
the creed.
"
higher christology
was not
It
in
time of
until the
was apparently,
that
type
The
the
in
most frequent up
to
at
least,
the
381,
was
the year
or,
the
case
be,
might
or also, in
"Holy Ghost";
;
")
and
in
the
that
in
"
the
"the,"
"
One,"
some
instances,
Who
spake by
in essential
agreement
in
to the
symbol,
seventh
the
Lucian,
Eusebius, Arius,
117, the
Nicene, the
How
may
be
is
etc.
a question.
the
through
the
gained
gradually
Nicene
51
supremacy
Constantinopolitan
Creed.
The
conclusion
this
question
not
is
upset
by an ex
we
belonging
the
are familiar as
Eastern
of
half
is
the
Zahn,
to
and
Loofs,
formerly
that
entertained
opinion
I,
too,
many
shared
it.
This
Caspar!,
others,
The
and
idea
is
or,
by
to
first
the
the
it
as daughter or sister.
what we
find
in
if
Roman symbol
The assump
not exclusively on
Clement of Alexandria,
52
Irenaeus,
opponents of
follows:
briefly
as
who
writings of Justin,
"The
in
show us
The
Ignatius.
view argue
this
was baptized
130,
and
Justin
that he
much resembles
other
the
tinguished
marks
ing
of
the
etc.)
in the
from
also
ar.
I.
airodavovra
may
Eastern
Some
7rd\iv
also
formulas of Irenaeus,
in
eva,
certain
also
the
symbols
majority
(
Irjo-ovs
not
IT. IT.
/Ltera
to
0^775,
be found
who employs
TTOIIJTTJV
ovpavov Kal
peculiarities
be shown
dis
distinguish
aravpwdel^ eVt
and
which
in
appear
Others as well as
7779,
These
it.
Eastern
not X.
CTTI IT. IT
Roman, and on
most characteristically
is
later
Xpt<rro9
the old
to
of style
exist
in
53
in
Paul, or,
ment
to the
fact,
in general.
it
Finally,
New
Testa
follows from
in his
time there
there
existed
in
second
fixed
symbol,
or,
related
the
to
pendent of
the
rather,
Roman
The
it.
century
many
symbols,
Eastern
second
symbol
was
at
latent
though
accordingly,
century,
existent.
still
best
is
and
leaves
it
the years
Such
is
this
this
in
history,
the
third
The Roman
contemporaneous with
and
century,
more probably
it
is
120-130,
100-120, or
the argument.
it
to
70-100."
54
Against
urged
four considerations
it
The
symbol or
with
tally
it
derive
one
Christ
was
was
Virgin
"born
of the
as
Mary,"
under Pontius
Pilate,
"
any
TravTOKpdrwp
called
Before
symbol.
God
existed
symbol
the
sentences seem
to be echoes of the
Jesus
be
(1)
offers
may
the
"
Only
he was pro
Holy Ghost of
having
suffered
and as coming
to
Formula
-like
sentences,
if
not
in a
confession.
with
the
The
sentences
oldest tradition
may
be, a
of
that
gave a
more
fixed
shape to
The
Faith,"
55
and
for
cism,
precepts
(c]
formulas of exor
and
faith
concerning
may
statements
in
Cor.
xv.
words of John
JMOVOV
d\rj0ivoi>
were
in the
as
much
Mand.
<rnv
0e6<{
do with
in
ff.,
we
Didachd ;
(6)
the
others
and Didacht
Mark
xvii. 3
6eov
illustrating (a)
and
Justin
Hermas, Mand.
i
As
teal
xvi.
(c)
1-6
(d)
The
ff.
iva yivaMrtcaMri
ere
TOV
ov uTrecrTeiAa?
I.
Xp.
a formula of faith as
-rrpwrov
KT\.,
the
TTUVTCOV
Hermas,
Tricrreva ov,
on
el?
baptismal
formula.
Such
56
passages as Ephes.
iv.
9 furnished themes
formulas were
the
of
One God
commandments
the
chief
practical
of these
some
fine
to
and Didackc
of
Christ
on
the
is
Aland.
in
and
\
ff.
ff.
not
unfrequently
foundation
of
attached,
numerous Pauline
One God,
Holy
without
Spirit, of the
Church, or of Christian
blessings.
(3)
In
particular,
the
preaching
of
which
2
various longer or shorter epitomisations,
Luke
Mark
i.
xvi. 9.
4.
I
Cor. xv.
and
57
These
(a)
mere
chronicle, (b)
prophecy,
Kara rrvevpa,
(tf)
second coming,
/3a9.
the chronicle
the plan of
(c]
(d)
ful
o-dpica
first
(_/")
and
ava-
affirmations of a
in
if
capable
of being modified.
(4)
dicates attached to
Spirit,
God,
and the
Christ,
general use
in
front,
apart from
rravroKpdrwp,
connexion with
rrartjp,
with additions
BeffTrorr}^
with Christ,
God
Those
are,
el?,
and Creator,
u/o<?
rov 0eov, 6
58
ayios,
\6yos
In
Trpo^nKo^.
the great
number of
some
named with
are
such as
dfaa-is
especial frequency,
mention of baptism),
0)77
(at&wo<?),
or without
T%
o-ap/co?),
crt?
(with
d<f)8apo-La,
Rule of
clamation
fj,d07]fjia,
"),
71/600-49,
etc.
avdara-
"
the
Faith,"
<(
Faith,"
"Kerugma"
"Truth,"
TrapdSoais,
"Rule
(or
of
Trapa&oOeis \oyos,
Pro
Truth,"
Si&a%rj,
etc.
A
in
make
no
us very
mal confession
in
three parts.
Caution of
at
ample,
Zahn
in
been
No
in
as
ex
on the Apostles
way
in
which
it
distin
branch of learn
this
of any creed
for
seen,
by the most
particular proposition,
plan,
is
the
in
received
guished students
ing.
as
treatise
59
claim
to
part
fession, unless
baptismal con
of a
fixed
he
in a position to offer
is
What
mony"
is
of Ignatius, Justin,
Clement of Alexandria
(i)
We
find
that
seems,
in
"
kerugma
essentials,
Irenaeus, and
"
reproduced a
"testi
of Christ which
to
be
of
fairly
60
Pilate
and the
There
(nreOavev.
based on
creed
the
no trace
is
it
was part
Trinitarian
plan.
(2)
As
to
Justin
knew of a definite
and used
we
find
christological
he
"kerugma,"
it
that
(a)
was
this
Roman
although
symbol,
pendent of
it,
and
it
inde
quite
Eastern symbols
"
"
kerugma
him
that with
this
symbol, that
second
(b)
to
is
article
(c)
say,
that
is
formal
not a
him
with
the
at
all,
except
that
the
a-ravpwdels eVt
HOVTLOV Tlt\drov, TO
three
any
ra>v
\IJGOVV
TTtti/ra,
such
it
is
tological
simply, TO
description,
baptismal formula
that
61
TrpcxfrrjTiKov
itself, is
the
in
however,
improbable; (d)
is
we can go no
farther
this
in
"kerugma";
prophecy
8eo-7roT7/9,
etc.";
knew
mention of
and Jesus
or,
as the case
was added.
But
in
may
may
but
of a
Trariip
Christ, a
fulfilled
be, in the
the prophetic
spirit,
the case
direction
form of a belief
p.d6r^fjLa
be, claimed to
or,
as
be a developed
it
existed in
62
a crystallised form at
all, is
unsupported by
any evidence.
(3)
shown
As regards
the
in
S.
iv.
fur
149
we
have
in
und Kirche,
Theologie
ff.,
Zahn
article against
first
the Zeitschrift
Bd.
Irenaeus, (a) as
must
be
very
confession
material which
collected from
in
is
sufficient
which
he
Irenaeus
T?}<?
i.
a\r)6eia<;
nicates in
employed
9,
;
i.
Roman symbol
determine the
to
"symbol"
according
(b)
Irenaeus
to
canon he himself
10,
he here produces
watchwords of
The form
i.
it,
commu
in
which
supplemented by the
his theology,
and given
in
2,
T.
i.
2,
pp. 123
ff.
is
out of a large
number of
formulas
compiling
it
63
independently
fixed confessional
of the Church.
Among
may be distinguished
1. The
expanded formula
these
2.
The
formula
efc
of Hernias.
#eo<?
TravroKpdrwp
may
K. T. yfjv K. r.
Or eA
3.
6a\ti<T<ras
Kal Trdvra
T.
r.
ovpavov
ev avrois,
A christological
formula of confession
(in
to the old
relation
still
one
closer
4.
1 he
Roman
5.
Roman
to Justin
#eo?
Trarrjp
s.
TravroKpurcop
of the
symbol.
formula of confession
and
symbol, but a
One
the
which
to
One God
frland.
i,
64
of belief in the
Holy
porated with
this
of Christ
fulfilled
as
were enabled
and incor
in Justin s case, so
As we
prophecy.
make
to
Spirit,
a similar conjecture
is
it
formula
confessional
existed
et?
f)
eva
real Secnrorrjv
craptcwOevra VTrep
7rpo<j)r)ra)v
KOI
IJ/JLWV
et?
(or vjrep
Trvev/jia
K/cr)pv%os
T9
icr\.
which
made
Irenaeus
logical
the
TT;<?
rov
TTtcrrt? teal
dXvjQeias,
rfjs
ayiov,
under Pontius
Bia
rrjv
the foundation
rwv
etc
of
the historico-christo-
about the
Pilate,
ro
this formula,
formula of confession
sentences
7;//,erepa9
ot/co^o/it a?,
From
irapdevov yevvrjcriv
his tcavwv
0eov^
et<?
Irjcrovv
crwTT/pta?)
the
in
containing
birth,
burial,
suffering
resurrection,
the
as
or,
in
glory (in
may
be,
is
as
may
be, in
the
as
far
covered
participle)
as the case
verb
finite
is
probably, to be distin
perhaps, or even
guished.
65
to
be found
and Ignatius
This
Cor. xv.
material
or,
hitherto
dis
will
symbol,
or,
in
in
cannot
only
their crystallised
be
demonstrated
entirely improbable.
of
argument
form,
must
different conclusion
but
the
in
not
is
have
in
in
issued
what
that
is
"
Multa,"
formulas
and
that
is
short
to say,
many
familiar
statements of
faith,
66
no
existed, but
no
in
certainly
assumes the
to
as Apostolic
that
is
is
Tertullian
and that he
Roman symbol
to
Tertullian s references
to say,
There
that
similar way,
proceeds
be already known.
is
symbol.
the objection
in
nothing
that
Multum,"
was
there
that
"
to serve
up
clearer.
to his readers
tradition
ad
hoc,
insufficient
for
the
he had
in
view.
We
Roman
treatise,
and Kattcnbusch,
i.
pp.
in
in
symbol.
tfeo? irarrjp
which he uses
my
1416*".
above-mentioned
the
argument
67
as evidence in his
for tradition,
am
disposed to
as
andria, there
Clement of Alex
regards
is
still
unsettled controversy
as to whether he does
me
still
Even
if
ran.
symbol
be so
this
extremely doubtful
art
it
seems
there
this
in
is
no
symbol
It
different
we
from what
Therefore we
may
leave
fixed
it
in
call
symbol.
out of account.
Asia Minor, or
article in the
form of an
historical
68
To
shown.
East
at
all,
in
the
any
of
Eastern
primitive
related
the old
to
independent of
it,
is
and therefore
symbol
Roman
closely
but
one,
still
Not only
impossible.
symbol
be proved,
but
it
is
quite
Church shows
silence,
and
in
in the fourth
by what
by
it
its
says.
not
is
contrary,
On
merely negative.
we can agree
that
those
the
who
There did
right.
East
be,
(in
up
are,
to a certain point,
actually
Asia Minor
or,
exist
in
as the case
the
may
69
which
most
is
Roman
the
the formulas
its
and
into the
way
fourth
creed,
century.
details peculiar to
Heaven and
made
There
formulas referring to
of
it,
existed,
One God,
further,
the Creator
made
their way,
and
of the
The
West.
many modi
Roman symbols
in
the
may be
Einally,
there
existed
formula which
which
Christ.
it
proclaimed
in
regard
to
70
the words
and
"descensus"
"
"
catholica
all
ecclesiastical
Rome.
When
did
this
happen
Roman symbol
We
have
to the time
of Tertullian.
It
means when he
autem
"Si
nobis
est
docuerit,
quoque
cum
Romam,
auctoritas
praesto
Africanis
Unum
didicerit,
ecclesiis
quoque
deum
quid
dominum
Jesum
ex
Virgine
Maria
del
filium
habes
videamus quid
contesserarit.
novit,
symbol that he
this
Italiae adjaces,
unde
.
is
et
recipit."
71
trace
second
Had
century.
established in
fierce
Rome
(about
have taken a
different
go back
to
been
symbol
and
Gnosticism
with
struggle
Marcionism
hand,
at
it
145-190),
form
too
far
would
on the other
beyond
the
unwise.
is
in
the
to explain
if
familiar to
that
about
century
Sea
The
the
the
Justin
middle
distinction
had
difficult
the writer.
the
Mapia?
which would be
not
of
shows us
the
between
yet
been
second
e /e
and
effected.
the
omission
of
the
mo<?
chiliastic
72
and
avza-ravra, dvaftdvra
to
be seriously weighed.
In addition, the
behind
history
and
it,
it
gradually
This
Kpdrwp.
in
which
the
old
fur
refuted
now
Zahn
Trio-reva)
originally
older
its
This
To Hermas
TravTotcpdrwp
also
makes
way
in
opposi
Trarrjp
began
Oeov TTCIVTO-
its first
Creator.
eW
article
an
und Kirche?
always
old
it
to
in
hypothesis that
et9
ran as
tion
Travro-
Roman symbol
The
tcpdropa.
Tkeologie
Roman symbol
Oeos
the Zeitschrift
el<?
dis
is
it
of
the
as
God
as
the
formula
tfeo?
yet
probable
unknown.
that
the
Bd.
iv. S.
30
fT.
the
The
of
too,
text,
known
shortly
before.
Eastern
christo-
was
presumably
Roman
to
symbol,
the
which
nddi]n.a,
logical
or
century
if
is,
contains Jesus
it
73
Baptism
sion, older
Roman
symbol, just
and
ev Bogy,
Finally,
if
we examine
clause by clause,
established
(1)
the
Roman symbol
The symbol
itself
is
which
gradually
the
Trarijp
oldest
TTCLVTO-
superseded
an
older form.
(2) vios 6 fAovo^vijs
(3)
The
is
Johannine.
Mapias
r/}s-
Trapflevov.
The
74
addition
of
eV
TrvevpaTO?
the
in
d<yiov
"
"
sentences
kerugmatic
is
relatively late,
The ra^eWa
there
is
manner
in like
late.
(5)
The
addition of
rf)
Both come
avaa-ravra.
rpirrj
from
J^epa to
the
First
The
avaftdvra
is
special
between
prominence given
dvaa-Tavra
completeness which
by
the
(7)
is
felt
regard
existing account.
and KaQr)^vov
for
high
best explained
for
the
The enumeration
be
understood
only
of the blessings
cannot
to
it
apart
article,
from
the
lends a precision
Acts
i.
prominence given
particular
Resurrection
body.
as
The
fact
Resurrection
that
were
sentences
the
in
to
the
of
the
Roman
"
"
kerugmatic
somewhat
further
Testament
writings,
that of John,
75
de
New
the Synoptists,
Paul,
and
century.
It
from
the
New
as
we can
Testament
and
76
largely
New
Testament
these
Among
writings.
was a
are
Its
main
outlines,
its
from
the
onwards,
way
of
without
have been,
itself
altered.
the
It
Western provinces
the
second
raising
any
That
is
century
claim
by the Apostles.
went
never
into the
end
presume,
Rome
In
recognisable.
why
to
composed
under
it
vinces.
(In
Rome
it
was not
some
until
was
strict
designated as
Apostolic
in
Amongst
the
these
modifications,
became
historically
the
77
from
derive
East
as the case
or,
of
"creator
namely,
"suffered,"
"eternal
"died,"
may
heaven and
"descended into
besides the
life,"
earth,"
hell,"
"catholica"-
the
our
Gallic
origin
and,
which
in
and otherwise of
sanctorum."
rightly be
cularly
close
borne
relations
issue
addition,
obscure
is
little
most perplexing of
munio
may
Creed
Apostles
"conceptus,"
which
symbols
In
in
all,
circumstance
the
this
its
"com-
connexion
mind the
existing
of
the
importance,
in
in
very
parti
between
But an
special
Hitherto
78
the
Symbol of
Nicetas.
it
planatio ; but so
is
What
symbol.
however,
word
much
related
closely
is
Ex-
certain, that
is
the
to
his
old
much more
it
Roman
interesting,
is
word) he
by
from
detail
in
explains
it
by the
and
sentence
crede te
connexion
this
in
08
Whether
the
in
"
sanctorum."
brings
Hahn,
Rev.
His date
very questionKattenbusch,
25.
bt nSdict.
is
fif.
is
catchwords
Tom.
xi.
Febr.
fifth
century.
i.
pp.
me
improbable)
there
presence
reference to
certain
could
concerned, their
is
be
by
explained
As
Cyril s words.
relationship
79
there
between
is
Nicetas
(we
may
ask
was
not
even
in
whether
his
fluenced
by Cyril
symbol
s),
and as connexions
the
possibility
than this
will
not say
more
itself
presents
at
present
of
sanctorum,"
about the
year
that
is
to
having arisen
indirect
throughout
and
the
Aquileia).
Remesiana
Loofs
in
and
Pannonia
2
1
have
Loofs, S. 677.
8o
At
each other.
ecclesiastical
additions
not
If
be
to
of
piece
adheres to a
which
distinguish
our Apostles
symbol.
"ecumenicity"
of the
part
events
all
"communio
traced
to
sanctorum"
Cyril,
but
is
be
to
must
it
sense
of
be
(i.e.,
the
Saints),
namely,
holy
suggested
the latter
judice Us
"
that
equivalent
Augustine
to
meaning
of
Zahn
men.
another
has
derivation,
communio sanctorum
rrjv
community
Faustus
with
or,
fellowship
specially
recently
in
as a
Rietz,
and
understood
tcoivwiav
rwv
"sacramenta."
"
is
dyitov,
Sub
est."
ff.
81
itself
symbol which
of the
guarded so
it
faithfully, is
finally
let
robbed
had previously
a striking pheno
yet had
its
causes
Meanwhile, however,
clearly explained.
has
contributions
Caspari
The most
problem.
was not
in
the
first
critical
fact
that
it
in
Rome
syniboli,
while
The
Traditio
the
in
Op. at.
Roman
ii.
S.
Rcdditio
in
still
remained
and
one
14
f.,
iii.
S.
in
use.
Roman symbol
201
f.,
230
f.
82
as
intelligible,
the
conditions
the
end of the
of
the
fifth
we
consider
time.
From
as
century, under
the
Roman
By way
Church
will
have resolved
ancient practice, so as in
formula to express
ism.
When
returned
its
to give
its
up
its
very baptismal
disavowal of Arian
to
shorter
symbol,
was,
the
old
Apostles
Roman
the
it
it.
in
fact,
Creed,
Roman
the
symbol,
Gallican,
the
possessed
the
recom
were wanting
now seemed
in
the earlier
indispensable.
we
83
direct
that
difficulties
it
as an old acquaintance.
It
tradition
moreover,
is,
still
Rome
in
present
enough
to
highly honoured.
The
differences
were
Thus
the legend
glory
power
with a halo of
for a
the Church.
it
exploded.
the
new
one,
Not
was
which had
until the
age
Reformation
IV
Creed
us
with
of
it
the
rule
were
which
those
that
supply
portions
already
Roman
plained
simply,
as
Testament.
and
confession are to be ex
post-Apostolic
some
claim,
from
"Amplius
not
ages,
the
the symbol
later
New
fore
of
part
the old
Apostolic
his
aliquid respondentes,
evangelic determinavit
"
(Tertul.
De
is
an
and there
in its
ancient
quam dominus
in
as
in
Christian
way an expression
any
intra-church
85
but
polemics,
rather
framed
confession,
of
as
with
the
ity,
Heathenism.
Judaism and
from
distinguished
the
general
and
theology.
tween
is
ness,
But
the
rules
of
of
faith
be
and a
instruc
and
is
characteristically reflected in
we
the old
Upon
in
As
find in the
regards
Apostles
Roman
one,
we
catechetical instruction,
S. 73-I39-
dogmatics
distinction
main, with
the
in
development
theological
confession
tion
pace,
cp.
Zezschwitz, Katechetik,
ii.
i.
86
first
may be
it
said that
they
the
of
elaboration
natural
Of
appeared.
old
char
its
common
faith of the
known
garded
inferna
in
"
Catholicam
is in
Zezschwitz, op.
Ibid.
stitution
1 1
8 f
of the
second
the
communionem
"sanctorum
"
made cannot be
"
ad
Two
cit.
Caspar!,
so re
article,
and
"
in
the third.
The
f.
iii.
"
predicate
only
"descendit
a different case. 2
in
S.
49
Catholic
"
f.
for
On
the sub
"
Christian,"
earliest in the
by Rufinus.
The second
At
all
in that
back
Marcion
"
feros
time
formed
the
first
is
there
is
which goes
In
century.
"descensus
part
am
teaching.
it,
second
the
into
far
the
events, the
a better position
in
at
cussed above.
so far
West
the
in
phrase appears
87
of
therefore
the
ad
in-
church
disposed
to
definite
Apollinarian
interest,
theory as
the
in
to
to give as
125
p.
in
complete an account
127.
f.
souls
endeavour
any
aspari,
iii.
S.
206
f.
in
Huhn,
93:
f.,
88
and
sion
his
make
preters
"descendit"
point
of view
both
additions
of
inter
to
equivalent
Even
criticism,
comparative
on account of
will,
meaning,
failures.
oldest
"sepultus."
dubious
The
glory.
be
in
allowed
modern
their
be
to
times
they
On
Ages and
p.
129
in
On
f.
Lessing down
Grundvig and
by
ment, whether
in
s~
The
p.
77
f.,
Creed and
raise
it
New
to
Testa
conservative-catholic
ibid.
enhance
his followers to
and
in
interest,
cp.
Kattenbusch,
the
op.
literature
cit.
\.
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