This creed is
as follows: “We believe in one God, Father Almighty, of
Whom are all things: and in one only-begotten Son of God, God the
Word, our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things: and in
one Holy Spirit, the Comforter.” The Creed of Eunomius.
(Adv. Eunom. i. 4.)
Πιστεύομεν
εἰς ἕνα Θεὸν,
Πατέρα
παντοκράτορα,
ἐξ οὗ τὰ
πάντα· καὶ
εἰς ἕνα
Μονογενῆ
῾Υιὸν τοῦ
Θεοῦ, Θεὸν
λόγον, τὸν
Κύριον ἡμῶν
Ιησοῦν
Χριστὸν, δι᾽
οὗ τὰ πάντα·
καὶ εἰς ἓν
Πνεῦμα ἅγιον,
τὸ
παράκλητον.
Eunom., Apol. §
5.
The Creed of Arius and
Euzoius.
(Soc. H.E. i. 26.)
Πιστεύομεν
εἰς ἕνα Θεὸν
Πατέρα
παντοκράτορα,
καὶ εἰς
Κύριον
Ιησοῦν
Χριστὸν, τὸν
῾Υιὸν αὐτοῦ,
τὸν ἐξ αὐτοῦ
πρὸ πάντων
τῶν αἰ& 240·νων
γεγεννημενον,
Θεὸν Λόγον,
δι᾽ οὗ τὰ
πάντα
ἐγένετο τά τε
ἐν τοῖς
οὐρανοῖς καὶ
τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς, τὸν
κατελθόντα,
καὶ
σαρκωθέντα,
καὶ παθόντα,
καὶ
ἀναστάντα,
καὶ
ἀνελθόντα
εἰς τοὺς
οὐρανοὺς καὶ
πάλιν
ἐρχόμενον
κρῖναι
ζῶντας καὶ
νεκρούς· καὶ
εἰς τὸ ἅγιον
Πνεῦμα· καὶ
εἰς σαρκὸς
ἀναστάσιν·
καὶ εἰς ζωὴν
τοῦ
μέλλοντος
αἰ& 242·νος·
καὶ εἰς
Βασιλείαν
οὐρανῶν· καὶ
εἰς μίαν
καθολικὴν
ἐκκλησιαν
τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν
ἀπὸ περάτων
ἑ& 241·ς
περάτων.
But it is in reality like the extant Exposition of the
Creed, Εκθεσις τῆς
πίστεως, published
in the notes of Valesius to Soc., Ecc. Hist. v. 12.
This was offered to Theodosius after the Council of
Constantinople. The Son is πρωτότοκον
πάσης
κτίσεως, and
πρὸ
πάσης
κτίσεως
γενόμενον,
but οὐκ
ἄκτιστον.
The οὔτε τῷ
Υἱ& 254·
συνεξισούμενον
οὔτε μὴν
ἄλλῳ τινὶ
συντασσόμενον…
πρῶτον ἔργον
καὶ
κρὰτιστον
τοῦ
Μονογενοῦς. cf. St. Aug., De Hær. liv., “Eunomius
asserted that the Son was altogether dissimilar to the Father and the
Spirit to the Son,” and Philostrius, De Hær. lxviii.,
who represents the Eunomians as believing in three essences descending
in value like gold, silver, and copper. Vide Swete,
Doctrine of the Holy Ghost, p. 61. a reading into this
“simpler” creed, in itself orthodox and unobjectionable, of
explanations which ran distinctly counter to the traditional and
instinctive faith of the Church, and inevitably demanded corrective
explanations and definitions.