We, therefore, both know and confess that God is without
beginning, without end, eternal and everlasting, uncreate,
unchangeable, invariable, simple, uncompound, incorporeal, invisible,
impalpable, uncircumscribed, infinite, incognisable, indefinable,
incomprehensible, good, just, maker of all things created, almighty,
all-ruling, all-surveying, of all overseer, sovereign, judge; and that
God is One, that is to say,
one essence οὐσία, substance,
being.; and that He is
known ὑποστάσεσι,
hypostases, persons., and has His being in three
subsistences, in Father, I say, and Son and Holy Spirit; and that the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one in all respects, except
in that of not being begotten, that of being begotten, and that of
procession; and that the Only-begotten Son and Word of God and God, in
His bowels of mercy, for our salvation, by the good pleasure of God and
the co-operation of the Holy Spirit, being conceived without seed, was
born uncorruptedly of the Holy Virgin and Mother of God, Mary, by the
Holy Spirit, and became of her perfect Man; and that the Same is at
once perfect God and perfect Man, of two natures, Godhead and Manhood,
and in two natures possessing intelligence, will and energy, and
freedom, and, in a word, perfect according to the measure and
proportion proper to each, at once to the divinity, I say, and to the
humanity, yet to one composite person μιᾷ δὲ
συνθέτῳ
ὑποστάσει.;
and that He suffered hunger and thirst and weariness, and was
crucified, and for three days submitted to the experience of death and
burial, and ascended to heaven, from which also He came to us, and
shall come again. And the Holy Scripture is witness to this and
the whole choir of the Saints.