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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 122

Chapter XIII.

… Compare the Athanasian Creed, "Est ergo fides recta et credamus et confiteamur, quia Dominus Noster Jesus Christus. Dei Filius, Deus pariter et Homo est." [469] In Trinitate alius atque alius, non aliud atque aliud. In …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 28

Chapter III.

… See also Hahn, §120. (41) Verona Creed (Hahn, §41, q.v.), a Latin fragment of a Western creed; nothing Athanasian but the ms. title. (42) Damasine' Creed (Opp. ed. Ben. ii. 626, Migne P.L …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 146

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE

… the doctrine of the divine Trinity, and the sacred announcement of the monarchy. elucidations. I. The Confession, improperly called the "Creed of Athanasius," is acknowledged to embody the (Athanasian) doctrine of the Nicene Council; and …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 17

Chapter X.--The Creed of Jerusalem: Doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

… Chapter X.--The Creed of Jerusalem: Doctrine of the Holy Trinity. § 1. The Creed. The ancient Creed which was used by the Church of Jerusalem in the middle of the fourth Century, and which Cyril …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 2

Preface.

… The English Church, to whose great divines, Hooker, Bull, Waterland, and Pearson, scientific Trinitarianism owes a very lucid and careful statement, has added the Athanasian creed to the Nicene. The Presbyterian churches, distinguished for the …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 87

The Sabellians.

… Such a view tended directly to dissolve Christian belief in the Trinity and in the Incarnation (Vide Wilberforce, Incarnation, pp. 112, 197). Hence the gentle Dionysius of Alexandria characterised it in severe terms as involving …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 133

Chapter I.

… 48. [1686] Athanasian Creed, clause 4. [1687] Or "perfect fulness of Divinity, and perfect unity of power." [1688] S. Matt. xii. 25; Ps. cii. 25-27; Dan. iv. 3.

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 110

Chapter XVI.

Athanasian Creed. The attributes of eternity, omnipotence, etc., are ascribed to each of the Three Persons, and we are then told that there are not three Eternals, etc. Each Person of the Holy Trinity possesses …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 50

Chapter 7.--The Addition of a Negative Does Not Change the Predicament.

… 8 [579] [This phraseology appears in the analytical statements of the so-called Athanasian creed (cap. 11-16), and affords ground for the opinion that this symbol is a Western one, originating in the school …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 4

"O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest,

… c.x., and to its close resemblance to some of the most remarkable phrases of the Athanasian Creed, and again to the striking passage respecting miracles in Book III. c.v., and to that upon …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 125

Chapter XVI.

… On another occasion, please God, we will deal with the subject and unfold it more fully. [480] Now let us return to the matter in hand. [480] Anrtelmi, who ascribed the Athanasian Creed to Vincentius …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 113

The COMMONITORY

… for its clearness and precision. [414] It contains so much in common with the so-called Athanasian Creed, both as to the sentiments and the language, that some have inferred from it, that Vincentius was …

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