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Comxnon Prayer; but when the book was placed bfr. fore the English bUhope they required the redtoration of both creeds before they would consent to consecrate the American bishops. The archbishops of Canter- bury and York, in the spring of 1786, wrote to the Church committee to that effect, whereupon another Convention was held in Wilmington, Delaware, Octo- ber, 1786. Bishop White relates that "the Nioene Creed was restored without debate or difficulty, but the Convention tohoUy rtftued to rtstort the Athancuian Cretd^^* and that tiie members from New England and bishop Seabnry yielded their consent to leave it out with great reluctance. Had it been retained, bishop White declared his intention never to read it in his church (Chri$t%an Timet, March, 1866). Many in the Church of England desire its omission from their book ; thus the Church of England Quarterly (April, 1855, p. 19): *'The Athanasian Creed finds fow real lovers as a portion of a public service. No one supposes that it was the work of Athanasius ; no one is now, at least among us, in any danger from the errors it denounces ; no one believes in his heart the danmatory clauses ; for no one believes that all the members of the Greek Church are necessarily consigned to everlasting dam- nation ; and thus, eveiy time the creed is read, the of- ficiating minister has solemnly to enunciate what nei- ther he nor any of his hearers believe. It is true that, by distinguishing between the creed itself and the damnatory clauses he may save himself, mentally, from declaring a falsehood ; but surely this is reason enough for the removal of the creed from our Liturgy. We have had too much in our Church of mental reser- vations. So far as the doctrine of the Trinity is con- cerned, it is abundantly insisted on in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds."
See, besides the authorities already cited, Bingham, Oriff. Eodea. bk. x, ch. iv, § 18 ; Mosheim, C%. Hi^, i, 240; Yossius, /Km. de Symbolo Athanasiano (0pp. vi,616); Maimer, Oriff.IMurff.i,2M; Radcliffb, ^ <Aa- nasian Creed iUmtrated (Lond. 1844, 8vo) ; Schaff, in Amer, Pretb, Rev. 1866, 584 sq.; Also in his Hut. of the Chriti, Church, § 182 ; Fletcher, Works (N. Y. ed.), iii, 210; Browne, On the TMrtjf-mne Articies, art. viii, § 4.
CREED, NiCBNB AND CONSTANTtNOPOLTTAN, a
creed adopted at the Counc^ of Nice A.D. 825, and enlarged at the second Council of Constantinople A.D. 881, by which the £Euth of the Church with regard to the person of Christ was set forth in opposition to cer- tain errors, especially Arianism. See Abius ; Chbis- TOLOOT ; Nice, Council of.
1. The Nieene Creed ^<is found, together with the similar Eusebian (Palestinian) confession, in the well- known Epistle of Eusebius of Casarea to his diocese (Epitt. ad su€B parochus hominet), which is given by Athanasius at the close of his Epitt, de decretis Nicm- nm Synod* (Opera, i, 289, and in Thilo's Bibl. i, 84 sq.) ; also, though with some variations, by Theodoret, H. E, i, 12, and Socrates, H, E, i, 8. Sozomen omitted it {H. JE. i, 10) from respect to the dieciplina arccmi. The Symbolum Nicsenum is given also, with unessential variations, by Athanasius, in his letter to the emperor Jovian, c. 8, and by Gelasius Cyzic, Lib. Synod, de Condi, Niccmo, ii, 85. On the unimportant variations in the text, corop.Walch, Bibl, Syvibol. p. 75 sq., and a; Hahn, BibUothek der Symbole (1842). Comp. also the parallel creeds of the Nicene age in the Appendix to Pearson's Exposition of the Creed." (Schaff, Hist, of the Christian Church, § 129 ; see also Dorher, Perton of Christ [Edinb. transl.], U, 247, 497.)
We give the Nicene Creed, Greek and English, in parallel columns. [The parts omitted at Constanthio- ple are put in brackets in the Greek text]
ChrseL I English,
nicrtCofiMv tit Ifa 0€6v,\ We believe in one God the waripa iravroKparopa, irdtrr«tv\FaXbBT Almighty, Maker of all iparSov re Koi ^oparmv wotri- things visible and Intlsible; rti^' Koi tU iva icvfuov 'Ificovv'hnA in one I^rd Jetiua Christ, " - ^6* riv v\6¥ TOW e«ow, YCf-.the Son of God b^utten of the J
ftf^h, rovrivrtv hi rnv ovviat Tov warpdtt Beov in 0tov}, ^Sn iic ^•rrbr, Otop aXuBtUtv U OeoD aXnotyoVf ftwriBivra ov wottf 94vTaf SfxoovciO¥ r^ 'arpi, it' ol ra wavra iyivtro [rd rt iv ry ovpaiY fuu ra iv rp 7^, TO¥ it' ht^9 roift avBpiinrovt Koi dta Tifv ft/iieTtpav «4*Tt|p<av icartXOoina tiai eofuutBivra Ktu kvavBpmiriivavra, wa96ina Kai uparrdrra rp rpirp nM^P?* ^*^ t\06vTa «iC row oupavovtf Koi ^pXOfiCfOf KfHV<u l^Stvrat Kai v€- Kpovt. Koi eir to ay tov «-v«b- MO- iToin a Xifovras, ort qv ■■OT* OT« ovK. }i¥, Ka* vpiv 7«r-
Vn^hvOi OMC ^9f KCU OT< if OVK
Father, Only-hegottoD, tliat ii of therabatanoeof the Fsther; God of God; Light oi U§^; very God of very God ; b^at> ten, not made; of ibe aaas rabctaDoe with the Fktber; I7 whom an things wre Budes. botk things in heaven ^ thingt in earth; vho for si men and oar smlvatloa de. floended and beeaizke flesh, -rai made man, aullered, mod nse again tlie third day. Uc m. cended into heaven; be eoB- eth to Jadge the qoick naA dead. And in the Hoir GhcA But thoee that ea j t Am mom « time ythenhe waa not; or that he was not before be vse b»-