This, however, might be said generally of the custom obtaining in the Church, without reference to the writer’s own practice.  Certainly the document appears to have no connexion with those among which it stands, and to be an answer to some particular request for a convenient summary couched in scriptural terms. § 1.  Hence it does not contain the Homoousion, and the author gives his reason for the omission—an omission which, he points out, is in contrast with his other writings against heretics. § 1.  Obviously, therefore, this composition is to be placed in his later life.  Yet he describes the De Fideas being anterior to the Moralia.