My Message and How I Got to It

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... A. D. 325. Council at Nicaea adopts Nicene Creed as given by Sokrates. 347-348. Cyril, at Jerusalem, delivers lectures which contain expressions similar to the Epiphanian formulation. 367. Nicene Creed adopted by Council at Tyana in Cappadocia. Alteration: "And in one only-begotten God, the Lord Jesus Christ." 373. Epiphanius, in Cyprus, writes to a Church in Pamphilia his Ancoratus. It contains his Creed (Prayer-Book Nicene). He refers to it as "set forth by bishops more than 310 in number." 373. Basil writes to the Antiochene Church the Nicene Creed, omitting several words of it. 377. Basil writes to Epiphanius that "not the smallest addition" could be made to the Nicene Creed except on the subject of the Godhead of the Spirit. Declines to consider additions in respect to Incarnation. 381. Authority of Council of Constantinople (of "the 150 ") questioned in West, and in Egypt. 381-451. No mention anywhere of a creed of the Second Council. 431. Council of Ephesus. The Antiochene Party opposed to it recognize no creed other than the Nicene, although keenly opposed to "Apollinarizing" while the new Epiphanian, suppositiously of 381, Constantinople, directly opposes Appolinarianism in terms. 451. Council at Chalcedon. The Fathers do not question that the Epiphanian Creed was adopted by " the 150" in " the holy city." They adopt and recite two Creeds, of "the 318" and of "the 150." The latter with the original Nicene Creed forms a " wise and salutary symbol." 451. Sokrates says that the Council of Constantinople confirmed the Nicene Creed. These are Dr. Bright's facts. Let us see what they omit. They omit any reference to contemporary witness that the Constantinopolitan Fathers either confirmed the Nicene Creed, or adopted the Epiphanian...