Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Ambrose: "This is the Creed"

“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 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 decisions (sententiam).”

~St. Ambrose (c. 340 - 397):  Explicatio symboli ad Initiandos.




St. Ambrose, by Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651). Oil on canvas; Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.

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