Dr. Swainson
(Creeds, Chap. vii. § 7), speaking of the Creed of Cyril of
Jerusalem, says that “the words σαρκωθέντα
καὶ
ἐνανθρωπήσαντα
are found in it, but no reference whatever is made to the birth
from the Virgin.” The present passage, and that in Cat. iv.
§ 9, “begotten of the Holy Virgin and the Holy Ghost,”
seems to shew that such a clause formed part of the Creed which Cyril
was expounding. The genuineness of both passages is attested by
all the mss. and Dr. Swainson was mistaken in
charging the Editors of the Oxford Translation with having omitted to
“mention that Touttée was himself doubtful as to the words
within the brackets” [ἐκ
Παρθένου καὶ
Πνεύματος
῾Αγίου]. The
brackets are added by Dr. Swainson himself, and Touttée had no
doubt of the genuineness of the words: on the contrary he
believed them to be part of the Creed itself. His note is as
follows: “The words of the Virgin and Holy Ghost I
have caused to be printed in larger letters as if taken from the
Symbol: although they are wanting in the Title of this Lecture
and in § 13, where the third Article of the Creed is referred
to. But they are read in nearly all the Latin and Greek Symbols,
and are referred to in Cat. iv. § 9.”