Note: Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed 325 CE (Σύμβολον τῆς Νικαίας) was amended in 381 CE at the First Council of Constantinople. Then the doctrine of the third component of Trinity, the Holy Spirit was not fully developed and developed in 381 Creed. The 325 Creed was to counter the faith of a very influential priest Arian of Alexandria. Athanasius of Alexandria (died 373-5) also wrote a creed in Greek, and in 1642 Dutch Protestant theologian Gerhard Johann Vossius questioned its authenticity and all accepted that.
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem,
factorem coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium, et invisibilium.
Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum.
Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.
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Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero.
Genitum, non factum,
consubstantialem Patri:
per quem omnia facta sunt.
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Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis.
Et incarnatus est de spiritu sancto ex Maria Virgine:
et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis, sub Pontio Pilato passus,
et sepultus est.
Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas.
Et ascendit in coelum: sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria, judicare vivos et mortuos:
cujus regni non erit finis.
Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem:
qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur:
qui locutus est per prophetas.
Et unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam.
Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.
Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.
English Version
We believe in one God, the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God,
generated from the Father before all ages.
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[God from God,] Light from Light, true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
one in being (homoousios) with the Father,
through whom all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation came down from the heavens,
and became flesh from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and was made man.
For our sake too He was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
suffered and was buried.
On the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures,
He ascended to the heavens and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead;
to His Kingdom there will be no end.
And [we believe] in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
[And] in one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We expect the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Read also:
- The New Testament Global Scholastic Commentary
- Definition of the Union of the Divine and Human Natures in the Person of Christ-Church of England
- Early Christianity and its literary background
- Sanatana Dharma Versus Prophetic Creeds-Sita Ram Goel
- The holy creed of Ahura Mazda
