The Creed of Epiphanius

9.¹ and one holy [Catholic] church
10a. and in one baptism of repentance
b. in the dismissal of sins
11. and in the resurrection of the flesh
12. and in life everlasting

12. Eusebius, died about 340, bishop of Caesarea, Ep. ad suam dioec. [Socrates, Hist. eccl. I, 8, 38; MG 67, 69; H. sect. 123; L 18]. Eusebius offered his creed to the Nicene council in 325, which used it to establish its own form.

St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem—Catecheses 6–18, held before 350 (351) [H sect. 124; L. 19; MG 33, 535 ff.]. He gives out a Creed used before 325; its text is construed otherwise by some [Macarius of Jerusalem, predecessor of St. Cyril, seems to have had the same creed, at least according to the headings].

St. Epiphanius, died in 403, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus.—Ancoratus, written about the year 374; contains at the end two formulae, of which the shorter (ἡ ἁγία πίστις τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας) is here considered; [cf. the longer, n. 13 f.]; the Creed is believed to be older than the Ancoratus [H. sect. 125; L 19 f.; ed. K. Holl. 1915, 148; MG 43, 232 C].

Constitutiones Apostolorum VII 41, of the beginning* of the fifth century [otherwise, of middle of fourth century; it contains certainly more ancient materials (MG 1, 1041 C. Funk, Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum I, Paderborn: 1905, 445)]. The Creed, as far as many parts are concerned, belongs to Lucian Martyr* (died 312); it shows a Syro-Palestinian* form.

THE CREED OF EPIPHANIUS²

Longer Form

(Exposition of Nicene Creed proposed to certain catechumens in the Orient)

13. We believe in one God, the father almighty, the creator of all things invisible and visible; and in one lord Jesus Christ, the son of God, the only begotten born of God the father, that is of the substance of the Father, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, begotten not made, consubstantial to the father, by whom all things were made, both those in heaven and those on earth, both visible and invisible, who for us men and for our salvation came down and became man, that is was completely born of holy Mary ever-virgin by the Holy Spirit, was made man, that is, assumed perfect human nature, soul and body and mind, and all whatever is man except sin, not from the seed of man nor by means of man, but