“LET them believe the creed of the Apostles which the church of Rome keeps and guards in its entirety.” (Letters, 42, 5)
“NOTHING is to be taken away from the apostolic writings, and nothing is to be added to them; in the same way we must expunge nothing from the Creed drawn up and handed down to us by the apostles, nor must we add anything to it. This is the Creed which the Roman church holds, where Peter, the first of the apostles, sat, and thither he brought the common decision (sententiam).” (Explicatio Symboli ad Initiandos.)
~St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan from 374-397
St. Ambrose Converting Theodosius, by Pierre Subleyras.
Oil on canvas, 1745; Galleria Nazionale, Perugia.
