(Found in the Acts of the Ecumenical Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon,
in the Epistle of Eusebius of Coesarea to his own Church, in the Epistle
of St. Athanasius Ad Jovianum Imp., in the Ecclesiastical Histories
of Theodoret and Socrates, and elsewhere, The variations in the text
are absolutely without importance.)
The Synod at Nice set forth this Creed.
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things visible
and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten
of his Father, of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light,
very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance(<greek>omoousion</greek>,
consubstantialem) with the Father. By whom all things were made, both which
be in heaven and in earth. Who for us men and for our salvation came down
[from heaven] and was incarnate and was made man. He suffered and the third
day he rose again, and ascended into heaven. And he shall come again to
judge both the quick and the dead. And [we believe] in the Holy Ghost.
And whosoever shall say that there was a time when the Son of God was not
(<greek>hn</greek> <greek>pote</greek> <greek>ote</greek>
<greek>ouk</greek> <greek>hn</greek> ), or that
before he was begotten he was not, or that he was made of things that were
not, or that he is of a different substance or essence [from the Father]
or that he is a creature, or subject to change or conversion--all that
so say, the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes them.