See Athanasius, De
Synod. § 15: “Arius and those with him thought and
professed thus: ‘God made the Son out of nothing, and
called Him His Son:’” and Expos. Fidei,
§ 2: “We do not regard as a creature, or thing made,
or as made out of nothing, God the Creator of all, the Son of God, the
true Being from the true Being, the Alone from the Alone, inasmuch as
the like glory and power was eternally and conjointly begotten of the
Father.” The 4th (Eusebian) Confession, or 4th of Antioch,
a.d. 342, ends thus: “Those who
say that the Son was from nothing,.…the Catholic Church regards
as aliens.”