Council,  Canon

 1   1    |   fragments have reached us: the creed, or symbol, given above;
 2   2    |     Nicaea, it did not draw up a creed of its own, but, by simply
 3   2    |     making a small change in the Creed adopted by the Nicene Council,
 4   2    |  additions to and changes in the Creed adopted by the First Council
 5   2    |          thereafter accepted the Creed of the First and Second
 6   2    |      Second Councils as a single Creed. As to why this Council
 7   2”,1 |      Orthodox faith, meaning the creed adopted by the 318 Fathers
 8   2”,5 |   definition confirming the holy Creed of the Nicene Fathers and
 9   3    |       compose or write any other Creed than the one issued by the
10   3”,7 |         there were read both the Creed of the holy and Ecumenical
11   3”,7 |          held in Nicaea, and the Creed of Jewish-minded Nestorius,
12   3”,7 |       faith to Orthodoxy another Creed[76] than the Symbol of the
13   3”,7 |        other symbol of faith (or creed), or to present it openly,
14   4    |      holy Council, following the Creed of the First Nicene Council
15   4    |        left unaltered the common Creed of the First Ec. Council,
16   4    |        us, and the Symbol (i.e., Creed) of the Fathers has imparted
17   8”,23|        this Council added to the Creed of the Nicene Council that
18   8”,23|     developed and completed this Creed, as Nicephorus Callistus
19   8”,23|        Faith (usually called the Creed in English) of the Nicene
20   8”,23|        since he confessed in his Creed: “We do not deem the Holy
21   8”,23| Accordingly, in interpreting the Creed the same saint says: “The
22   8”,23|      that Nestorius wrote in his Creed that the Holy Spirit proceeds
23   8”,23|      Third Council accepted this Creed and did not object to it
24   8”,23|          Papists assert that the Creed of Nestorius was condemned
25   8”,23|       this written into the holy Creed of the First and Second
26   8”,23|         out of reverence for the Creed he gave up this intention
27   8”,23|        Christ as revealed by the Creed, they did not want to add
28   8”,23|     undertake to compose another Creed (called in Greek “Symbol
29   8”,23|  opportune occasion to compose a creed of his own, and he was wont
30   8”,23|       the writing of a different creed in general, or, more explicitly
31   8”,23|      forbid heretics a different creed than the (Symbol of) faith
32   8”,23|      also the explanation of the Creed of this Council which divine
33   8”,23|       compose any other Orthodox Creed than the one of the Nicene
34   8”,23|          offer the same Orthodox Creed itself differently worded
35   8”,23|        from the text of the holy Creed, not merely a single word,
36   8”,23|         anything from the common Creed, notwithstanding that they
37   8”,23|        dare to modify the sacred Creed at all, but, instead, contented
38   8”,23|          of adding to the common Creed the doctrine concerning
39   8”,23|       hard pressed to add to the Creed an elucidation or approbation
40   8”,23|        they preserved the common Creed free from every innovation.
41   8”,23|      independent thoughts to the Creed as respecting the faith,
42   8”,23|       implicitly embodied in the Creed, and constituted additions
43   8”,23|       venerability of the Nicene Creed, and towards the definition
44   8”,23|     anathema any addition to the Creed whether with respect to
45   8”,23|       venerability of the Nicene Creed, however, and this same
46   8”,23|         not sin by adding to the Creed of the First, so must it
47   8”,23|    anyone to add anything to the Creed (though the Council held
48   8”,23|       implicitly included in the Creed. And what is the evidence
49   8”,23|     Councils, which accepted the Creed of the First and that of
50   8”,23|         the Second as one single Creed, called only the Nicene
51   8”,23|           called only the Nicene Creed; but not so with the words
52   8”,23|      implicitly contained in the Creed of the First Ec. C.; for
53   8”,23|          any different faith (or Creed) than that defined by the
54   8”,23|          Councils, or rather the Creed.” That the Fathers of the
55   8”,23|         rather than added to the Creed of the First is attested
56   8”,23|    All-holy Spirit construed the Creed called great and venerable,
57   8”,23|       that is to say, the Nicene Creed) was emphasized by the 150
58   8”,23|       addition whatsoever in the Creed with an anathema, as did
59   8”,23|      Westerners’ addition in the Creed is a gross violation of
60   8”,23|        to have been added to the Creed, owing to the definitions
61   8”,23|          command that the common Creed be preserved intact and
62   8”,23|      which has been added in the Creed concerning the Holy Spirit,
63   8”,23|   wrongly chanted along with the Creed in the Church of the Romans,
64   8”,23|          defiance of this sacred Creed dare to set forth any other,
65   8”,23|        or a subtraction, in this Creed which has been handed down
66   8”,23|    condemned the addition in the Creed, by saying: “We again are
67   8”,23|       council, imparted the holy Creed; and we put them in the
68   8”,23|          589, commanded the holy Creed to read without the addition
69   8”,23|      against the addition in the Creed, upon being asked by Charles
70   8”,23|          engrave the entire holy Creed without it upon two silver
71   8”,23|          Faith called the Nicene Creed. But for anyone to set forth
72   8”,23|  supposed to be in the form of a creed of his own), that is not
73   8”,23|          exposition of their own creed. But this is not all. Even
74   8”,23|         conflict with the common Creed. 3) No one must be baptized
75   8”,23|         anything from the common Creed and represent it as his
76   8”,23|         by incorporating it in a creed of his own. (Dositheus,
77   8”,23|        was in agreement with the Creed of the First and Second
78   8”,23|      what is termed in English a creed), and they cite many Western
79   8”,23|       this, that this Symbol (or Creed) is one which originated
80   8”,23|       concerning this Symbol (or Creed) sufficiently when he said: “
81   8”,23|     appears that this Symbol (or Creed) really is contained in
82   8”,23|          due the addition to the Creed that was the first and worst
83   8”,23|  Graeco-Romanum) where after the Creed (or Symbol of the Faith)