Chapter
X.—The Creed of Jerusalem: Doctrine of the Holy
Trinity.
§ 1.
The Creed
. The
ancient Creed which was used by the Church of Jerusalem in the middle
of the fourth Century, and which Cyril expounded in his Catechetical
Lectures, was recited by him to the Catechumens at the end of the fifth
Lecture, to be committed to memory, but not to be written out on paper
(§ 12). Accordingly it is not found in any of the MSS., but
instead of it the Nicene Creed with the Anathema is there inserted in
Codd. Roe, Casaub. This could only have been added after
Cyril’s time, when the motives for secrecy had ceased.
The Creed which Cyril really taught and expounded may be
gathered from various passages in the Lectures themselves, and
especially from the Titles prefixed to them.
With the Creed of Jerusalem thus ascertained, it will be
instructive to compare the Nicene formula, and for this purpose we
print them in parallel columns.
CREED OF S. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM.
CREED OF NICÆA.
From S. Athanasius, De Decretis Fidei
Nicænæ.
___________________
___________________
Πιστεύομεν
εἰς ἕνα
Θεόν
331
,
Πατέρα
332
Παντοκράτορα
333
,
Ποιητὴν
οὐρανοῦ καὶ
γῆς
῾Ορατῶν τε
πάντων καὶ
ἀοράτων
334
.
Καὶ
εἰς ἕνα
Κύριον
᾽Ιησοῦν
Χριστόν
335
,
τὸν
Ψἱὸν τοῦ
Θεοῦ
τὸν
Μονογενῆ,
τὸν ἐκ
τοῦ Πατρὸς
γεννηθέντα,
Θεὸν
ἀληθινὸν
πρὸ
πάντων τῶν
αἰώνων,
δι᾽ οὗ
τὰ πάντα
ἐγένετο
336
,
τὸν
σαρκωθέντα
καὶ
ἐνανθρωπήσαντα
337
,
σταυρωθέντα
καὶ
ταφέντα
338
,
καὶ
ἀναστάντα ἐκ
νεκρῶν τῇ
τρίτῃ
ἡμέρᾳ,
καὶ
ἀνελθόντα
εἰς τοὺς
οὐρανούς,
καὶ
καθίσαντα ἐκ
δεξιῶν τοῦ
Πατρός
339
,
καὶ
πάλιν
ἐρχόμενον ἐν
δόξῃ
κρῖναι
ζῶντας καὶ
νεκρούς,
οὗ τῆς
βασιλείας
οὐκ ἔσται
τέλος
340
.
Καὶ
εἰς ἓν ἅγιον
Πνεῦμα
τὸν
Παράκλητον,
τὸ
λαλῆσαν ἐν
τοῖς
προφήταις
341
.
καὶ
εἰς ἓν
βάπτισμα
μετανοίας
εἰς ἄφεσιν
ἁμαρτιῶν
342
,
καὶ
εἰς μίαν
ἁγίαν
καθολικὴν
ἐκκλησίαν,
καὶ
εἰς σαρκὸς
ἀνάστασιν,
καὶ
εἰς ζωὴν
αἰώνιον
343
.
Πιστεύομεν
εἰς ἕνα
Θεόν,
Πατέρα
παντοκράτορα,
πάντων
ὁρατῶν τε
καὶ
ἀοράτων
ποιήτην,
καὶ
εἰς ἕνα
Κύριον
᾽Ιησοῦν
Χριστόν,
τὸν
Ψἱὸν τοῦ
Θεοῦ,
γεννηθέντα
ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς
μονογενῆ,
τουτέστιν
ἐκ τῆς
οὐσίας τοῦ
Πατρός,
Θεὸν
ἐκ Θεοῦ, φῶς
ἐκ φῶτος.
Θεὸν
ἀληθινὸν ἐκ
Θεοῦ
ἀληθινοῦ,
γεννηθέντα
οὐ τοιηθέντα,
ὁμοούσιον τῷ
Πατρί,
δι᾽ οὗ
τὰ πάντα
ἐγένετο,
τά τε
ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ
καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς,
τὸν
δι᾽ ἡμὰς
τοὺς
ἀνθρώπους
καὶ διὰ τὴν
ἡμετέραν
σωτηρίαν
344
κατελθόντα
καὶ
σαρκωθέντα,
ἐνανθρωπήσαντα,
παθόντα,
καὶ
ἀναστάντα τῇ
τρίτῃ
ἡμέρᾳ,
ἀνελθόντα
εἰς
οὐρανούς,
καὶ
ἐρχόμενον
κρῖναι
ζῶντας καὶ
νεκρούς,
καὶ
εἰς τὸ ἅγιον
Πνεῦμα.
Τοὺς
δὲ λέγοντας·
ἦν ποτε ὅτε
οὐκ ἦν, καί
τρὶν
γεννηθῆναι
οὐκ ἦν, καὶ
ὅτι ἐξ οὐκ
ὄντων
ἐγένετο, ἢ ἐξ
ἑτέρας
ὑποστάσεως ἢ
οὐσίας
φάσκοντας
εἶναι ἢ
κτιστὸν ἢ
τρεπτὸν ἢ
ἀλλοιωτὸν
τὸν Ψἱὸν τοῦ
Θεοῦ.
ἀναθεματίζει
ἡ καθολικὴ
ἐκκλησία.
§ 2.
Doctrine of the Holy
Trinity
. “The doctrinal position of S. Cyril is
admirably described, and his orthodoxy vindicated by Cardinal Newman in
the following passage of his Preface to the Lectures in the Library of
the Fathers. “There is something very remarkable and even
startling to the reader of S. Cyril, to find in a divine of his school
such a perfect agreement, for instance as regards the doctrine of the
Trinity, with those Fathers who in his age were more famous as
champions of it. Here is a writer, separated by whatsoever cause
from what, speaking historically, may be called the Athanasian School,
suspicious of its adherents, and suspected by them; yet he, when he
comes to explain himself, expresses precisely the same doctrine as that
of Athanasius or Gregory, while he merely abstains from the particular
theological term in which the latter Fathers agreeably to the Nicene
Council conveyed it. Can we have a clearer proof that the
difference of opinion between them was not one of ecclesiastical and
traditionary doctrine, but of practical judgment? that the Fathers at
Nicæa wisely considered that, under the circumstances, the word in
question was the only symbol which would secure the Church against the
insidious heresy which was assailing it, while S. Cyril, with Eusebius
of Cæsarea, Meletius and others shrank from it, at least for a
while,
as if an
addition to the Creed, or a word already taken into the service of an
opposite heresy, and likely to introduce into the Church heretical
notions? Their judgment, which was erroneous, was their own;
their faith was not theirs only, but shared with them by the whole
Christian world
345
.”
In regard to the doctrine of the Trinity in
general the two great heresies which distracted the Church in S.
Cyril’s day were Sabellianism and Arianism, the one
“confounding the Persons,” the other “dividing the
substance” of the indivisible Unity of the Godhead. Both
these opposite errors Cyril condemns with equal energy: “Do
thou neither separate the Son from the Father, nor by making a
confusion believe in a Son-Fatherhood
346
.”
Again he says: “Our hope is in Father, and Son, and Holy
Ghost. We preach not three Gods: let the Marcionites be
silenced; but with the Holy Ghost through One Son we preach One
God. The Faith is indivisible; the worship inseparable. We
neither separate the Holy Trinity, like some (that is the Arians); nor
do we, as Sabellius, work confusion
347
.”
“He says not, I am the Father, but
the Father is in Me, and I
am in the Father
. And again He said not,
I and the
Father
am
one
, but,
I and the Father are One
, that we
should neither separate them, nor make a confusion of
Son-Father
348
.”
In the sequel of this last passage Cyril proceeds
to argue that this unity of the Father and the Son lies in their
Nature, “since God begat God,” in their Kingdom
349
, in their Will
350
, and
in their joint Creation
351
, thus at each step
rejecting some prominent heretical tenet.
The question, however, of Cyril’s orthodoxy
depends especially upon his supposed opposition to the Creed of
Nicæa, of which no evidence is alleged except his attendance at
the Council of Seleucia, and the absence from his Lectures of the word
ὁμοούσιον
.
The purpose of Cyril’s attendance at
Seleucia was to appeal against his deposition by Acacius, and there is
apparently no evidence of his having taken part in the doctrinal
discussions, or signed the Creed of Antioch
352
. What is certain is that Cyril’s
bitterest enemies who refused to sit with him in the Council were
Acacius and his Arian allies, who expressly rejected both
ὁμοούσιος
and
ὁμοιούσιος
and “altogether denied the Nicene formula and censured the
Council, while the others, who were the majority, accepted the whole
proceedings of the Council, except that they complained of the word
‘Co-essential,’ as obscure, and so open to
suspicion
353
.” It thus
appears that Cyril’s friends at Seleucia were partly those who
approved the word “ Co-essential,” and partly those of whom
Athanasius speaks as “brothers, who mean what we mean, and
dispute only about the word
354
.” It
needed in fact the profound insight of an Athanasius to foresee that in
the end that word must triumph over all opposition, and be accepted by
the Universal Church as the one true safeguard of the Christian
Faith. Meanwhile it was the standard round which debate, and
strife, and hatred, and persecution, were to rage for fifty years with
unexampled fury.
Was Cyril to be blamed, ought he not rather to be
commended, for not introducing such a war-cry into the exposition of an
ancient Creed, in which it had no place, the Creed of his own Church,
the Mother of all the Churches, whose Faith he as a youthful Presbyter
was commissioned to teach to the young Candidates for Baptism?
But if we compare his doctrine with that of the Nicene
formula, we shall find that, as Dr. Newman says, “His own
writings are most exactly orthodox, though he does not in the
Catechetical Lectures use the word
ὁμοούσιον
355
.”
The first point to be noticed in the comparison is the
use of the title “Son of God.”
For this Eusebius in his Creed had substituted
“Word of God.” Athanasius explains the significance
of the change: “Uniting the two titles, Scripture speaks of
‘Son’ in order to herald the natural and true offspring of
His essence (
οὐσίας
); and on the other
hand that none may think of the offspring as human, in again indicating
His essence it calls Him Word, and Wisdom, and Radiance, for from this
we infer that the generation was impassible (
ἀπαθές
), and eternal, and
becoming to God
356
.”
Cyril is here in full accord with
Athanasius: in his Creed he found “Son of God,” and
in his exposition he states that the Father is “by nature and in
truth Father of One only, the Only-begotten Son
357
:” “One they are because of
the dignity pertaining to the Godhead, since God begat God
358
:” “The Son then is
Very God
, having the Father in Himself, not
changed into the Father
359
.” When he
says that the Son is in all things like (
ὅμοιος
ἐν πᾶσιν
) to Him who begat
Him; begotten Life of Life, and Light of Light, Power of Power, God of
God, and the characteristics of the Godhead are unchangeable
(
ἀπαράλλακτοι
) in the Son
360
,” he is using
in all good faith the very words of the orthodox Bishops at Nicæa,
“
ὅμοιόν τε καὶ
ἀπαράλλακτον
αὐτὸν κατὰ
πὰντα τῷ
Πατρί
361
.”
The further significance which Athanasius ascribes
to the title “Logos,” is also expressed fully and
repeatedly by Cyril: “Whenever thou hearest of God
begetting, sink not down in thought to bodily things, nor think of a
corruptible generation, lest thou be guilty of impiety
362
.”
The “passionless generation,” to which so
much importance was attached at Nicæa and by Athanasius, is also
asserted by Cyril when he says that God “became a Father not by
passion (
οὐ
πάθει Πατὴρ
γενόμενος
)
363
.” The eternal generation is
most emphatically declared again and again: the Son, he says,
“began not His existence in time, but was before all ages
eternally and incomprehensibly begotten of the Father; the Wisdom,
and the Power of God, and His Righteousness personally
subsisting
364
:”
“Throughout His being (
ἐξ
οὗπερ ἦν
), a being
by eternal generation, He holds His royal dignity, and shares His
Father’s seat
365
.”
Believe that of One God there is One Only-begotten Son, who is
before all ages God the Word; not the uttered word diffused into the
air, nor to be likened to impersonal words; but the Word, the Son,
Maker of all who partake of reason, the Word who heareth the father,
and Himself speaketh
366
.”
The importance of such language is better
understood when we remember that Marcellus, “another head of the
dragon lately sprung up in Galatia
367
,” entirely
rejected the word “Begotten,” as implying a beginning, and
“contradicting the eternity of the Logos, so distinctly
proclaimed by S. John.” An eternal generation, as stated by
Athanasius and others, was to him unimaginable. The Logos in His
pre-existence was unbegotten, and could not be called Son, but only the
Logos invested with human nature was Son of God and begotten
368
.” These heretical opinions of
Marcellus had been condemned in several Councils within a few years
preceding Cyril’s Lectures.
The next supposed proof of Cyril’s opposition to
the Nicene doctrine is that he has not adopted in his Lectures the
phrases “of the essence (
οὐσίας
) of the
Father,” and “of one essence (
ὁμοούσιον
) with
the Father.” This omission is the chief ground of the
reproaches cast upon the memory of Cyril by the writers of
Ecclesiastical History; for this he was described by Jerome as an
Arian, and by Rufinus as a waverer, while his formal acceptance of the
terms used at Nicæa is called by Socrates and Sozomen an act of
repentance. By others he was denounced as
᾽Αρειανόφρων
because he had addressed his letter to Constantius as “the most
religious king,” and never used the word
ὁμοούσιον
in his
Lectures.
We shall be better
able to estimate the justice of these reproaches, if we consider first
the history of these words
οὐσία
and
ὁμοούσιος
, and the
reasons which Cyril may have had for not employing them in the
instruction of youthful Candidates for Baptism.
It is strange to find that seven hundred years before
the great controversy at Nicæa on the introduction of the word
Οὐσία
into the
Creed, it had been the war-cry of almost as fierce a conflict between
rival schools of philosophy.
“There appears,” says Plato in the person of
the Eleatic stranger, “to be a sort of war of the giants going on
between them because of the dispute concerning
οὐσία
. Some of them are
dragging all things down from heaven and from the invisible to earth,
grasping rocks and oaks in their hands; for of all such things they lay
hold, in obstinately maintaining that what can be touched and handled
alone has being (
εἶναι
), because they define
‘being’ and ‘body’ as one; and if any one else
says that what is not a body has being, they altogether despise him,
and will hear of nothing but body….Therefore their opponents
cautiously defend themselves from above out of some invisible world,
mightily contending that certain intelligible and incorporeal ideas are
the true essence (
οὐσίαν
)
369
.”
It is apparently to this passage of Plato that Aristotle
refers in describing the ambiguity of the word
οὐσία
370
: “Now
Οὐσία
seems to belong most
manifestly to bodies: wherefore animals and plants and their
parts we say are
οὐσίαι
, also natural
bodies as fire and water and earth and all such things, and all either
parts of these, or products either of parts or the whole, as the heaven
and its parts, stars, moon, and sun. But whether these are the
only
οὐσίαι
or
there are others also, or none of these but others of a different kind,
is a matter for inquiry. Some think that the boundaries of
bodies, as a surface, and a line and a point and a unit (
μονάς
), are
οὐσίαι
, even more so than
body and solid. Further, one class of persons thinks that besides
things sensible there is no
οὐσία
, and another that there
are many things, and these more enduring (
ἀΐδια
), as Plato thinks that the ideas
(
εἴδη
) and the
mathematical elements are two kinds of
οὐσία
, and that the
οὐσία
of sensible
bodies is a third.”
In proceeding to define the term, Aristotle says that
οὐσία
is used in
four senses if not more: the essential nature (
τὸ τί ἦν
εἶναι
), the universal (
τὸ καθόλον
)
the genus, and a fourth the subject (
τὸ
ὑποκείμενον
).
Under, this fourth sense he proceeds to discuss the application of the
term
οὐσια
to the
matter, the form, and the resulting whole. Without going further
we may see that the use of the word in philosophy was full of
difficulty and ambiguity.
The ambiguity is thus expressed by Mr.
Robertson
371
: “We may
look at a concrete term as denoting either this or that individual
simply (
τόδε
τι
), or as expressing its nature, and so as
common
to more individuals than one. Now properly
(
πρώτως
)
οὐσία
is only
appropriate to the former purpose. But it may be employed in a
secondary sense to designate the latter, in this sense species and
genera are
δεύτεραι
οὐσίαι
, the wider class being
less truly
οὐσίαι
than the
former.” Perhaps the earliest use of
οὐσία
in Christian
writings is in Justin M.
372
, where he describes
the Logos as “having been begotten from the Father, by His power
and will, but not by abscission (
ἀποτομήν
), as if the
οὐσία
of the
Father were divided, as all other things when divided and cut are no
longer the same as before.” His example was fire, from
which other fires are kindled, while it remains undiminished and
unchanged. According to Dr. Newman
373
,
οὐσία
here means
“substance, or being.”
In Clement of Alexandria
374
,
οὐσία
means a
“nature” common to many, for he speaks of the Gnostic
Demiurge as creating an irrational soul
ὁμοούσιον
with the
soul of the beasts;” and again as implanting in man
“something co-essential (
ὁμοούσιον
) with
himself, inasmuch as he is invisible and incorporeal; his essence
(
οὐσίαν
) he
called “the breath of life,” but the thing formed
(
μορφωθέν
) became
“a living soul,” which in the prophetic Scriptures he
confesses himself to be.
Again in §42 of the same Fragment, according to the Valentinians,
“the body of Jesus is co-essential (
ὁμοούσιον
) with
the Church.”
So Hippolytus
375
speaks of the
Son Incarnate as being “at one and the same time Infinite God and
finite Man, having the nature (
οὐσίαν
) of each in
perfection:” and again, “There has been effected a
certain inexpressible and irrefragable union of the two (the Godhead
and the Manhood) into one subsistence (
ὑπόστασιν
).”
In Origen we find the two words
οὐσία
(essence, or substance)
and
ὑπόστασις
(individual subsistence) accurately distinguished. Quoting the
description of Wisdom, as being the breath (
ἀτμίς
)
of the power of God, and pure effluence (
ἀπόρροια
) from the
glory of the Almighty, and radiance (
ἀπαύγασμα
)
of the Eternal Light
376
,” he says that
“Wisdom proceeding from Him is generated of the very substance of
God,” and adds that “these comparisons most manifestly shew
that there is community of substance between Father and Son. For
an effluence appears to be
ὁμοούσιος
, that
is, of one substance with that body from which it is an effluence or
vapour.”
On the other hand he writes, “We worship the
Father of the Truth, and the Son who is the Truth, being in subsistence
(
τῇ
ὑποστάσει
)
two
377
.” On this passage Bishop Bull
remarks: “The words
ὑπόστασις
and
οὐσία
in ancient
times were variously used, at least by the Christians. That is to
say, sometimes
ὑπόστασις
was
taken by them for what we call
οὐσία
, and
vice
versa
,
οὐσία
for what we call
ὑπόστασις
:
sometimes the ancients even before the Council of Nicæa used
ὑπόστασις
for what we now call ‘person’ or
‘subsistence
378
’.”
This Bishop Bull presently explains again as “an individual thing
subsisting by itself, which in rational beings is the same as
person
.”
For examples of these interchanges of meaning, we
may notice that the Synod of Antioch (
a.d.
269), in the Epistle addressed to Paul of Samosata before his
deposition, speaking of the unity of Christ’s
Person
, says
that “He is one and the same in His
οὐσίᾳ
379
.” On this passage Routh remarks
that “The words
οὐσία
and
φύσις
are sometimes
employed by the ancients for a personal subsistence (
persona
subsistente
), as is plainly testified by Photius.”
In the earlier part
380
of
the same Epistle the Son is described as “being before all ages,
not in foreknowledge, but in essence and subsistence
(
ἐν
οὐσίᾳ καὶ
ὑποστάσει
).”
The confusion arising from the uncertainty in the
use of these two words is well illustrated in the account which
Athanasius
381
himself gives of this
same Synod of Antioch: “They who deposed the Samosatene,
took Co-essential (
ὁμοούσιος
) in a
bodily sense, because Paul had attempted sophistry and said,
‘Unless Christ has of man become God, it follows that He is
Co-essential with the Father; and if so, of necessity there are three
essences (
οὐσίαι
), one the previous
essence, and the other two from it;’ and therefore guarding
against this they said with good reason, that Christ was not
Co-essential (
ὁμοούσιον
).”
Athanasius then explains on what grounds the Bishops at Nicæa
“reasonably asserted on their part, that the Son was
Co-essential.” Athanasius himself states that, in giving
this explanation of the rejection of
οὐσιον
by the Bishops
who condemned the Samosatene, he had not their Epistle before
him
382
; and his statement, that Paul used the term
not to express his own view, but to refute that of the Bishops, is
thought to be opposed to what Hilary says
383
,
“Male
ὁμοούσιον
Samosatenus confessus est: sed numquid melius Ariani
negaverunt?”
That the statement of Athanasius himself is not free
from difficulty is clear from the way in which so great a Theologian as
Bishop Hefele endeavours to explain it: “Athanasius says
that Paul argued in this way: If Christ is
῾Ομοούσιος
with the
Father, then three subsistences (
οὐσίαι
) must be
admitted—one first substance (the Father), and two more recent
(the Son and
the Spirit);
that is to say, that the Divine Substance is separated into three
parts
384
.” The logical subtlety of Paul
was better understood by Basil the Great
385
: “For in truth they who met
together about Paul of Samosata found fault with the phrase, as not
being distinct; for they said that the word
ὁμοούσιος
gave the
idea of an
οὐσία
and of those derived from it, so that the title
ὁμοούσιον
assigned
the
οὐσία
separately to the subjects to which it was distributed: and this
notion has some reason in the case of copper and the coins made from
it; but in the case of God the Father, and God the Son, there is no
substance conceived to be antecedent and superior to both: for to
say and to think this surpasses all bounds of impiety.”
The confusion arising from the uncertainty in the
use of these words had been the cause of strife throughout the
Christian Church for more than twenty years before the date of
Cyril’s Lectures; and though it was declared at the Council of
Alexandria (362) to be but a controversy about words
386
,
it had long been and long afterwards continued to be a fruitful cause
of dissension between men who, when forced to explain their meaning,
were found to be in substantial agreement. That Cyril abstained
from introducing into his elementary teaching terms so provocative of
dangerous controversy, is a reason for commendation, not for
censure. But if it is alleged that he denied or doubted or failed
to assert the essential Godhead of the Son, the suspicion is unfounded
and easily refuted. To the many passages already quoted
concerning the eternal generation of the Son, it will be enough to add
one single sentence which ought to dispel all doubt of his
orthodoxy. “The Only-begotten Son, together with the Holy
Ghost, is partaker of the Godhead of the Father (
τῆς
θεότητος τῆς
Πατρικῆς
κοινωνός
).”
The word chosen by Cyril to express the Divine Essence (
θεότης
) common to the three
Persons of the Godhead is at least as appropriate as
οὐσία
.
If we now look at the particular errors mentioned in the
Anathema of the Nicene Council, we shall find that every one of them is
earnestly condemned by Cyril.
“
Once He was not
(
῏Ην
ποτε ὅτε οὐκ
ἦν
). This famous Arian formula is
expressly rejected in Cat. xi. § 17: “Neither let us
say, There was a time when the Son was not.” The eternity
of the Son is asserted again and again, in reference, for instance, to
His generation
387
, His
Priesthood
388
, and His
throne
389
.
“
Before His generation He was
not
” (
πρὶν
γεννηθῆναι
οὐκ ἦν
). Compare with
this Cyril’s repeated assertions that “the Son is eternally
begotten, by an inscrutable and incomprehensible generation
390
,” “the Son of God
before all ages
, without beginning
391
,” that “time intervenes not in
the generation of the Son from the Father
392
.”
“
He came to be from nothing
”
(
ἐξ
οὐκ ὄντων
ἐγένετο
).
Cyril’s language is emphatic: “As I have often said,
He did not bring forth the Son from non-existence (
ἐκ τοῦ
μὴ ὄντος
) into being,
nor take the non-existent into Sonship
393
.”
“
That He is of other subsistence or
essence
” (
ἐξ ἑτέρας
ὑποστάσεως ἢ
οὐσίας
). It is certain
that Cyril has given no countenance to the error or errors condemned in
this clause, but is in entire agreement with the Council.
On the question whether
ὺπόστασις
and
οὐσία
have in
this passage the same or different meanings, see Bull,
Def. Fid.
Nic
. II. 9, 11, p. 314 (
Oxf. Ed
.). Athanasius
expressly states that they are perfectly equivalent:
“Subsistence (
ὑπόστασις
) is
essence (
οὐσία
),
and means nothing else but very being, which Jeremiah calls existence
(
ὕπαρξις
).” Basil
distinguishes them, and is followed by Bishop Bull, whose opinion is
controverted by Mr. Robertson in an Excursus on the meaning of the
phrase, on p. 77 of his edition of Athanasius in this Series. The
student who desires to pursue the subject may consult in addition to
the works
just named, and the
authorities therein mentioned, Dr. Newman’s
Arians of the
Fourth Century
, especially chap. v. sect. i. 3, and Appendix, note
iv., on “the terms
οὐσία
and
ὑπόστασις
as
used in the early Church;” Mr. Robertson’s
Prolegomena
, ch. ii. § 3 (2) (b); and the Rev. H. A.
Wilson’s
Prolegomena
to Gregory of Nyssa, ch. iv., in this
Series.
331
Cat. vi. tit.
332
vii. tit.; § 4.
333
viii. tit.
334
ix. tit.; § 4.
335
x. tit.; vii. 4.
336
xi. tit.; § 21.
337
xii. tit.
338
xiii. tit.
339
xiv. tit., cf. §
27; xv. 3.
340
xv. tit.; § 2.
341
xvi. tit.; xviii. 3.
342
xviii. 22.
343
xviii. tit.; §
22.
344
Cyril, Cat. iv. 9;
xii. 3;
Mystag
. ii. 7.
345
Preface
, p.
ix.
346
Cat. iv. § 8.
347
Cat. xvi. §
4. See the notes on this and the preceding passage.
348
Cat. xi. § 16.
349
Cat. xv. § 27, note
3.
350
Athan.
Contra
Arian
, Or. ii. § 31, 1: “For the Word of God is
Framer and Maker, and He is the Father’s Will. Cf. Or. iii.
§ 63 fin.
351
Ib. Or. iii. § 11,
3: “Such then being the Son, therefore when the Son works,
the Father is the Worker.”
352
There is, I
believe, no extant list of signatures: “Whether the few
Homoüsians and Hilary were among those who signed is not
said” (Hefele,
Councils
, II. p. 264.)
353
Athan.
De
Synod
. c. 12.
354
Ib. c. 41.
355
Preface
, p.
14.
356
Contra Arianos
,
Or. i. 28.
357
Cat. vii. § 5.
358
Ib. xi. § 16.
359
Ib. § 17.
360
Ib. § 18.
361
Athan.
De
Decretis
, c. 20.
362
Cat. xi. § 7.
363
Ib. vii. 5: see
note there.
364
Ib. iv. 7.
365
Ib.
366
Ib. iv. § 8.
367
Ib. xv. § 27.
368
Zahn,
Marcellus
of Ancyra
, as quoted by Hefele,
Councils
, II. p. 31,
slightly abridged. See also Hefele, p. 186.
369
Plato,
Sophist
. § 246. “The passage is quoted by
Theodoret,
Græcarum affectionem Curatio
, ii. p.
732.” (Heindorf.)
370
Metaph
. vi.
§ 2.
371
Athanasius,
Proleg
. p. xxxi., in this Series.
372
Tryph
. c.
128*.
373
Arians
, p.
186.
374
Fragm
. § 50,
Sylb. 341.
375
Adv. Beron. et
Hel
. Fragm. i.
376
Wisdom of Solomon vii. 25
, quoted by Origen,
Fragm. in
Epist. ad Hebræos
, Lommatzsch, V. p. 300.
377
Contra Celsum
,
viii. p. 386.
378
Def. Fid. Nic
.
II. c. 9, § 11.
379
Routh,
Rel.
Sacr
., III. p. 299.
380
Ib. p. 290.
381
De Synodis
, c.
45, p. 474, in this Series.
382
Ib. c. 43.
383
Liber de Synodis
,
513.
384
Councils, I. p. 124.
385
Epist
. 300
(al. 52), quoted by Bull,
D.F.N
. ii. 1, § 11.
386
Athan.
Tomus ad
Antiochenos
, §§ 5, 6.
387
Cat. iv. § 7.
388
Ib. x. § 14.
389
Ib. xiv. § 27.
390
Cat. xi. § 4.
391
§ 5.
392
§ 7.
393
§ 14.
Cf. S. Alex.
Epist. apud Theodoret
, § 4: “That
the Son of God was not made ‘from things which are not,’
and that ‘there was no time when He was not,’ the
Evangelist John sufficiently shews” (Ante-Nic.
Library).