“We believe in one God the Father omnipotent, maker of the visible and invisible things. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, Who [Latin: Hoc] is of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, True God of True God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father, whom the Greeks call consubstantial [Latin: “homousion”; Greek for “the same substance as”], through Whom all things are [having been] made [facta sunt] whether those things [were made] in heaven or which [were made] on earth; Who for us men [“homines”] and for our salvation came down, became incarnate, became man, suffered and rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven, is [/will be] coming [Latin “venturus”] to judge the living and the dead. And [we believe] in the Holy Spirit.
“But those who say: ‘there was once when He was not,’ and ‘prior to [priusquam] being begotten, He was not, and He was made from out of non-existence [Latin “ex nullis exantibus” lit. “out of none existing things”] which the Greeks call ‘exuconton’ or [Latin “vel” meaning “or [interchangeably]”] ‘an other substance’ [Greek text says ‘ex heteras hypostaseos e ousias’ or ‘out of another (different) hypostasis or substance’], stating the Son of God [to be] changeable or convertible; these [persons] the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes [declares to be cursed/set apart from on High (by God).]” Pope Pelagius II, in his epistle “Quod ad dilectionern” (c. 585), confirms the following profession of faith from the Council of Nicea (the first ecumenical council) —The First Council of Nicaea, Profession of Faith of the Council Fathers, 325 AD
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