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heretics to do anything else, (if anyone) through diabolical operation crookedly and cunningly acts contrary to the pious preachings of the orthodox (teachers) of the Catholic Church, that is to say, its paternal and synodal proclamations, to the destruction of the most sincere confession unto the Lord our God, and persists without repentance unto the end impiously doing these things, let such a person be condemned forever, and let all the people say: so be it, so be it [Ps. 105:48].

St. Eugenius I 654 (655)–657 St. Vitalianus 657–672

(ADEODATUS 672–676)

COUNCIL OF TOLEDO XI 6751

Creed of Faith (especially concerning the Trinity and the Incarnation)2

["Exposition of faith" against the Priscillianists]

275. [The Trinity] We confess and believe the holy and ineffable Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God naturally, to be of one substance, one nature, and also of one majesty and power. And we profess that the Father, indeed, is not begotten, not created but unbegotten. For He from whom both the Son received His nativity and the Holy Spirit His procession takes His origin from no one. Therefore, He is the source and origin of all Godhead; also is the Father Himself of His own essence, He who ineffably begot the Son [Another version: Father, essence indeed ineffable, Son of His own substance] from an ineffable substance; nor did He, however, beget other than what He Himself is: God God, light light, from Him, therefore, is all paternity

276. in heaven and on earth [Eph. 3:15].—We confess also that the Son was born, but not made, from the substance of the Father without beginning before all ages, because neither the Father without the Son, nor the Son without the Father ever at any time existed. And yet not as the Son from the Father, so the Father from the Son, because the Father did not receive generation from the Son, but the Son from the

  1. KAnt 73 ff. [cf. n. 15 ff.] thinks that this creed was composed by a certain unknown theologian of the fifth century and was received by this Council. It is not certain that this same creed was approved by INNOCENT III: cf. Zeitschr. f. kath. Theologie 48 (1924) 322 ff. (H. Lennerz, S.J.). ↩

  2. Msi XI 132 E ff.; coll. J. Madoz, S.J., Le symbole du XIe concile de Tolède, 1938, 16 ff.; H. 242 ff. and KAnt 74 ff.; Hrd III 1020 A ff.; ML 12, 959 A ff.; cf. Hfl III 114 ff.; Bar(Th) ad 675 n. 1 ff. (11, 588 ff.).—See in Madox op. cit. 31 ff., 206 ff. the citations of the Fathers, etc., occurring in this document. ↩