§ 129. THE NICENE AJSD CONSTANTINOPOLITAif CREED. 667
§ 129. The Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creeds,
We look now at the Creeds of Nicsea and Constantinople Bide by side, which sum up the result of these long contro- ^ersies. We mark the differences by inclosing in brackets the parts of the former omitted by the latter, and italicizing' ihe additions which the latter makes to the former.
THE NICENE CREED OF 325.' THE NICilNO-CONSTANTINOPOLI'
TAN CREED OF 381.'
TlidTevonev ei'y eVa @ihv, varipa irav- ^KTnvoixfv iU 'iva Qibv, Ttarepa irov
TOKpcLTopa, ndvTuv 6paTa>y Te K-xl aopdruv roKparopa, iroiriTrji' ovpavov Ka\ 71] S,
iroir}T-fiv. SpaToiv re iroj/Toiv Kal aopdrwy.
Kal (Is (va Kvpiov ^\r)aovv XpitXThu, Kcl (h 'iva Kvpiov'lT)<TOvv Xpicrrhv rhr
Thv vihv Tov &eov' yn'i'ri^fVTa e/c rov vlhy rou &eov rhv (lov oy evrf rhv sk
irarphs l^fiovoyei/rj • toDt' fcmv e/c tijs tov narphs yiVftj^ivra irph ndvrup
ovrriai tov Trarpbr • Qeov e« &eov Kal^J toov aldivwv' (pws 4k (pUThs, &ehv oXtj-
(p&s f(C (pccThs, Qehif aKTi^ifhy eK Qeov dtvhv e'/c Qeov a\r]bivov, yevvribevTa, ob
d\r}btvov ' yevvr\^fVTa^ ov iroirj^evTa, TroiTj^ffTa, o^oovaiov tw iraTpl • 5i' 00 rh
oiioovaiov Tea iraTpi • Si' ov to irai/ro Tracra eyeieTo • rhv Si' rj/xa^ rovs avripai'
iyeviTo [ra re sV to5 ovpaviS Kal t^ eV ttovs Kal Sia ttj;/ rjixeTepav <rci!TT)piav KaT-
* It is found, together with the similar Eusebian (Palestinian) confession, in the well-known Epistle of Eusebius of Csesarea to his diocese (Epist. ad suae parochias homines), which is given by Athanasius at the close of his Epist. de decretis Nicaenas Synodi (Opera, tom. i. p. 239, and in Thilo's Bibl. vol. i. p. 84 sq.) ; also, though with some variations, by Theodoret, H. E. i. 12, and Socrates, H. E. i. 8. Sozomen omitted it (H. E. i. 10) from respect to the disciplina arcani. The Symbolum Nicoenum is given also, with unessential variations, by Athanasius in his letter to the emperor Jovian, c. 8, and by Gelasius Cyzic, Lib. Synod, de Concil. Nicseno, ii. 35. On the unimportant variations in the text, comp. Walch, Bibl. symbol, p. 75 sqq., and A. Hahn, Bibliothek der Symbole, 1842. Comp. also the parallel Creeds of the Nicene age in the Appendix to Pearson's Exposition of the Creed.
' Found in the Acts of the second ecumenical council in all the collectiona (Mansi, tom. iii. 566 ; Harduin, i, 814). It probably does not come directly from this council, still less from the individual authorship of Gregory of Nyssa or Gregory of ?^azianzum to whom it has sometimes been ascribed, but the additions by which it is distinguished from the Nicene, were already extant in substance under different forms (in the Symbolum Epiphanii, for example, and the Symb. BasUii Magni), and took shape gradually in the course of the controversy. It is striking that it is njt mentioned as distinct from the Nicene by Gregory Nazianzen in his Epist. 102 to Cicdonius (tom. ii. 93 ed. Paris. 1842), nor by the third ecumenical council at Ephe^ BUS. On the other hand, it was twice recited at the council of Chalcedon, twice ad pfr ed in the acts, and thus solemnly sanctioned. Comp. Hefele, ii. 11, 1?,
' Kal is wanting in Athanasius (De decretis, etc.).
THIRD PERIOD. A.D, 311-590.
T?) yf, ■] rhv 5j' ^/u5s tovs af^pwirovs Kal Sici Tr)v TifXfTfpav <ra>Ttjpiau KarfK^Stn-a Ko] ffapKudfyra, Kal ' (vavbpanr-qffavTa ' ira^6ma " /col avaaravra tt) rpirri Vfieptf, iuffKbSvTa fls Tovs ' ovpavovs,* tpx^l^n'oi' moivcu (wyzas Kal vfKpovs.
Kal (Is TO S,yiov irvtv^ia.
ifJb6i>Ta i K 1 2v ovpat/aiv, Kal rapKm bevTa fK TTVfvixaT OS ay'iov H 3.1 Mw pi as T7]S TT apb fvov, Kal ivaydpairfi' aaina' aravpai^ivra re utt tp rj fiut 4wl Xlovriov XliXarov, koX Tra^Svra, Kal Ta(p(VTa,Kal avaaravTa tTj rp'nri 'lUfpa Kara to? ypa<l>as, Kal aveK^ovra tls Tovs oiipavoas., Kal (ca3e^<$ /xej'oi' f K Se^iciiv Tov iraT ph Sf Kal ttoAii' f pXO fievop IX era bo^rjs Kpivai ^uvrat Kal VfKpovs' oil Tris ^aa iKfias ovk f(TT at T ( \os.
Kal ils rb irvev^a to aytou, Tb Ki>ptov, Tb (^(oovoibv ^ Tb €/c TOV Tra- Tphs iKtropevofjLffOV, rhavvtraTpl Kal vi^ TrpocTKVVovfJievoi' Kal ff vv- So^a^S nfvov, T^ \a\riiTav St a twv n p 0 (f) 71 T a> V . — E Is pi lav ay lav Kabo- XiKr]v Kal awo crTo\ iKTjV e/c/cA.ij- (T iav • 6 fjio\oyov fifv ev ^olttt tcr /i-n els &<p( (T IV afiapT iwv ' irpoadoKufxfv avdffT aff IV vfKpuiv Kal C'*''?*' TOV fx4\\ovTos alwvos. 'Afi^r. [Tovs Se \4yovTas, '6ti ' ^y irore oTt
ttbK ^v " KOiL ' irplv yfvvrjbrjvai ovk riv '
Kal 2ti ii, OVK UVTCCV (yiviTO ' t) f'l fTfpas
Itnocnddeus f) ovalas * (pdrrKovTas flvai '
fi KTicrbv, fl TpeTTTbvy fi aWoiwTbv Tbv
vlbv TOV Qfov • ai'odfjudTi'^ei ri ayia Ka^o-
AiKT? Kal a-KocTToKiKri ' eV/cATjcria.]
"We believe in one God, the Father "Wc believe in one God, the Father
Almighty, Maker of all things visible Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and invisible. and of all things visible and invisible.
" And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the " And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the
' Kai is wanting in Atlianasius ; Socrates and Gelasiu3 have it.
• Gelasius adds Ta<p(VTa, buried.
• Without the article in Athanasius.
• Al. Kai.
• Athanasius omits '6ti.
• Ilcre hypostasis and essence are still used Interchangeably ; though Basil and Bull endeavor to prove a distinction. Comp. on the contrary, Petavius, De trinit. 1. iv. c. 1 (p. 314 sqq.). Rtifinua, i. 6, translates: "Ex alia subsistentia aut substan tia."
' Athanasius omits 0710 and avocnoAiKr), Theodoret has both predicates, SocrateB has a7ro<rTc)Ai((i7, all read KoboKiKt),