12. “We confess One God, alone unmade, alone eternal, alone unoriginate, alone true, alone possessing immortality, alone good, alone mighty, Creator, Ordainer and Disposer of all things, unchangeable and unalterable, righteous and good, of the Law and the Prophets and the New Testament. We believe that this God gave birth to the Only-begotten Son before all worlds, through Whom He made the world and all things; that He gave birth to Him not in semblance, but in truth, following His own Will, so that He is unchangeable and unalterable, God’s perfect creature but not as one of His other creatures, His handiwork, but not as His other works; not, as Valentinus maintained, that the Son is a development of the Father; nor, as Manichæus has declared of the Son, a consubstantial part of the Father; nor, as Sabellius, who makes two out of one, Son and Father at once; nor, as Hieracas, a light from a light, or a lamp with two flames; nor as if He was previously in being and afterwards born or created afresh to be a Son, a notion often condemned by thyself, blessed Pope180    Of Alexandria., publicly in the Church and in the assembly of the brethren. But, as we have affirmed, we believe that He was created by the will of God before times and worlds, and has His life and existence from the Father, Who gave Him to share His own glorious perfections. For, when the Father gave to Him the inheritance of all things, He did not thereby deprive Himself of attributes which are His without origination, He being the source of all things.

12. «Novimus unum Deum, solum infectum, solum sempiternum, solum sine initio, solum verum, solum 0105A immortalitatem habentem, solum optimum, solum potentem, omnium creatorem, ordinatorem et dispositorem inconvertibilem, immutabilem, justum et optimum legis et prophetarum et novi Testamenti: hunc Deum genuisse filium unigenitum ante omnia saecula, per quem et saeculum et omnia fecit: natum autem non putative, sed vere, obsecutum voluntati suae, immutabilem et inconvertibilem, creaturam Dei perfectam, sed non sicuti unum creaturarum; facturam, sed non sicuti caeterae facturae; nec ut Valentinus 80 prolationem Natum Patris commentatus est; nec sicut Manichaeus partem unius substantiae Patris Natum exposuit; nec sicut Sabellius, qui unionem dividit, ipsum dixit Filium quem et Patrem; nec sicut Hieracas, lucernam 0105B de lucerna, vel lampadem in duas partes; nec qui fuit ante, postmodum natum vel supercreatum in filium, sicuti et tu ipse, beatissime papa, media in ecclesia et in consessu fratrum, frequenter eos qui talia introducunt renuisti: sed, sicut diximus, voluntate Dei ante tempora et saecula creatum, et vivere 0106A et esse accipiens a Patre, et glorias ei consubsistente Patre. Neque enim Pater dans ei omnium haereditatem, fraudavit semetipsum ab his quae non facta habentur ab ipso; fons est autem omnium.