“We believe and confess one true and good
God, Father Almighty, of Whom are all things, the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ: and His one Only-begotten Son, our Lord and
God, Jesus Christ, only true, through Whom all things were made, both
visible and invisible, and by Whom all things consist: Who was in
the beginning with God and was God, and, after this, according to the
Scriptures, was seen on earth and had His conversation with men:
Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with
God, but emptied Himself, and by means of the birth from a virgin took
a servant’s form, and was formed in fashion as a man, and
fulfilled all things written with reference to Him and about Him,
according to His Father’s commandment, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the Cross. And on the third day He rose
from the dead, according to the Scriptures, and was seen by His holy
disciples, and the rest, as it is written: And He ascended into
heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of His Father, whence He is
coming at the end of this world, to raise all men, and to give to every
man according to his conduct. Then the just shall be taken up
into life eternal and the kingdom of heaven, but the sinner shall be
condemned to eternal punishment, where their worm dieth not and the
fire is not quenched: And in one Holy Ghost, the Comforter, in
Whom we were sealed to the day of redemption: The Spirit of
truth, the Spirit of adoption, in Whom we cry, Abba, Father; Who
divideth and worketh the gifts that come of God, to each one for our
good, as He will; Who teaches and calls to remembrance all things that
He has heard from the Son; Who is good; Who guides us into all truth,
and confirms all that believe, both in sure knowledge and accurate
confession, and in pious service and spiritual and true worship of God
the Father, and of His only begotten Son our Lord, and of
Himself.” The rest of the
clause seems to be rather in the way of explanation and assertion,
and here he explains, as cited before, that the baptismal formula
involves the homoousion.