Then, still facing the East, the Candidate was
bidden to say, “I believe in the Father, and in the Son, and in
the Holy Ghost, and in one Baptism of repentance Compare xviii. 22:
“One Baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.”.” We have seen that in Cat.
xviii. 22, 32, Cyril intimated to his Candidates that they would be
required to profess publicly the Creed which he had delivered to them
and which they had repeated after him. This public profession of
faith (῾Ομολογία,
“Redditio Symboli”) was in some Churches made on Holy
Thursday, according to Canon 46 of the Synod of Laodicea:
“Those to be baptized must learn the Creed by heart, and recite
it to the Bishop or Presbyters on the fifth day of the
week.” But in the Apostolic Constitutions, c. xli.,
Candidate is required to recite the whole Creed immediately after the
Renunciation: “And after his renunciation let him in his
consociation (συντασσόμενος)
say: ‘And I associate myself to Christ, and believe and am
baptized into One Unbegotten Being, the Only True God Almighty, the
Father of Christ,.…and into the Lord Jesus Christ.…and I am
baptized into the Holy Ghost,.…into the resurrection of the
flesh, and into the remission of sins, and into the kingdom of heaven,
and into the life of the world to come.’ And after this vow
he comes in order to the anointing with oil.”