27.  But remember also what I have often said See Cat. iv. 7; xi. 17.  The clause, καὶ καθίσαντα ἐκ δεξιῶν τοῦ Πατρός, does not occur in the original form of the Nicene Creed, but is found in the Confession of Faith contained in Const. Apost. c. 41, in the four Eusebian Confessions of Antioch (341, 2 a.d.), and in the Macrostichos (344 a.d.).  An equivalent clause is found in the brief Confession of Hippolytus (circ. 220 a.d.) Contra Hæres. Noeti, c. 1:  “καὶ ὄντα ἐν δεξίᾳ τοῦ Πατρός,” and in Tertullian, De Virgin. Veland. c. 1:  “Regula quidem Fidei una omnino est, sola immobilis et irreformabilis,.…sedentem nunc ad dextram Patris:”  de Præscriptione, c 13:  “Regula est autem fidei.…sedisse ad dexteram Patris:”  adversus Praxean, c. 2:  “sedere ad dexteram Patris.” concerning the Son’s sitting at the right hand of the Father; because of the next sentence in the Creed, which says, “and ascended into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of the Father.”  Let us not curiously pry into what is properly meant by the throne; for it is incomprehensible:  but neither let us endure those who falsely say, that it was after His Cross and Resurrection and Ascension into heaven, that the Son began to sit on the right hand of the Father.  For the Son gained not His throne by advancement ἐκ προκοπῆς.  Cf. Cat. x. 5, note 8.; but throughout His being (and His being is by an eternal generation ἀφ᾽ οὗπερ ἔστιν, (ἔστι δὲ ἀεὶ γεννηθείς).  In both clauses ἔστιν is emphatic.) He also sitteth together with the Father.  And this throne the Prophet Esaias having beheld before the incarnate coming of the Saviour, says, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up Is. vi. 1., and the rest.  For the Father no man hath seen at any time John i. 18., and He who then appeared to the Prophet was the Son.  The Psalmist also says, Thy throne is prepared of old; Thou art from everlasting Ps. xciii. 2..  Though then the testimonies on this point are many, yet because of the lateness of the time, we will content ourselves even with these.