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The following is a copy: The subscribed faith of the followers of Marcellus. 11. «To the most reverend and most holy bishops exiled in Diocæsarea for the orthodox faith in our Savior Jesus Christ, to Eulogius, Adelphius, Alexander, Ammonius, Harpocration, Isaac, Isidore, Annoubion, Pitimus, Euphratius, Aaron, the presbyters from Ancyra in Galatia, Photinus, Eustathius, another Photinus, Sigerius, and the deacon Hyginus, and the subdeacon Heraclides, and the reader Elpidius, and the patron Kyriakos, greeting in the Lord.» «Since we have come to your God-fearing presence from our aforementioned homeland, making a fitting visit, and being questioned by your holiness concerning the faith we hold, and having welcomed such a caring inquiry from you, which you made especially because of those who wish to circulate certain false things about us in vain, we deemed it necessary to fully inform you concerning this, not only from the letters of communion written to us by the thrice-blessed Pope Athanasius, which were shown to your holiness by us, but also from this our written confession, that we neither believe nor have we ever believed anything outside the ecumenical and ecclesiastical faith defined at Nicaea, which we confess † by power 3.266 to hold, anathematizing those who dare to call the Son or the Holy Spirit a creature, and the Arian heresy and that of Sabellius and of Photinus and of Paul of Samosata, and those who do not say the Holy Trinity is three persons, uncircumscribed and subsistent and consubstantial and co-eternal and self-existent, and anathematizing also those who say the Son is an extension or contraction or energy of the Father, and those who do not confess God the Word, the Son of God, to be the pre-eternal and co-eternal with the Father and subsistent and self-existent Son and God. 12. If anyone says the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are the same, let him be anathema. if anyone gives a beginning or an end to the Son of God and Word or to His kingdom, let him be anathema. if anyone says the Son or the Holy Spirit is a part of the Father, and does not confess that the Son of God was begotten from the essence of the Father before all thought, let him be anathema. And concerning the incarnation of God the Word, the only-begotten Son of God, we confess that the Son of God also became man without sin, by the assumption of the whole human nature, that is, a rational and intelligent soul and human flesh. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible, and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten from the Father, only-begotten, that is, from the essence of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father, through whom all things were made, both things in heaven and things on earth, who for us men and for our salvation came down and was incarnate and was made man, suffered and rose again on the third day, ascended into the heavens, and is coming to judge the living and the dead, and in the Holy Spirit. But those who say, ‘There was a time when he was not,’ and ‘Before he was begotten, he was not,’ and that he came into being from non-existence, or who assert that the Son of God is of another hypostasis or essence, or is created, or is subject to change or alteration—these the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes. I, Photinus, presbyter of the Catholic Church in Ancyra, so believe and think as is written above. I, Eustathius, presbyter of the same, so believe and think as is written above. 3.267 I, Photinus, presbyter of the same, so believe and think as is written above. I, Sigerius, presbyter of the same, so believe and think as is written above. I, Hyginus

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ἀντίγραφον τόδε· Ἡ ἐπίγραφος πίστις τῶν Μαρκέλλου. 11. «Τοῖς αἰδεσιμωτάτοις καὶ ἁγιωτάτοις ἐπισκόποις τοῖς ἐν ∆ιοκαισαρείᾳ ὑπερορισθεῖσιν ὑπὲρ τῆς εἰς τὸν σωτῆρα ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως, Εὐλογίῳ, Ἀδελφίῳ, Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, Ἀμωνίῳ, Ἁρποκρατίωνι, Ἰσαάκ, Ἰσιδώρῳ, Ἀννουβίωνι, Πιτίμῳ Εὐφρατίῳ, Ἀαρώνῃ, οἱ ἀπὸ Ἀγκύρας τῆς Γαλατίας πρεσβύτεροι, Φωτεινός, Εὐστάθιος, ἕτερος Φωτεινός, Σιγέριος καὶ διάκονος Ὑγῖνος καὶ ὑποδιάκονος Ἡρακλείδης καὶ ἀναγνώστης Ἐλπίδιος καὶ προστάτης Κυριακὸς ἐν κυρίῳ χαίρειν.» «Ἐνδεδημηκότων ἡμῶν πρὸς τὴν ὑμετέραν θεοσέβειαν ἀπὸ τῆς προειρημένης ἡμετέρας πατρίδος, τὴν προσήκουσαν ἐπίσκεψιν ποιούμενοι, καὶ ἐπερωτωμένων ἡμῶν παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας ὁσιότητος περὶ τῆς ἐν ἡμῖν πίστεως ὅπως ἔχομεν, καὶ ἀποδεξάμενοι ὑμῶν τὴν τοιαύτην κηδεμονικὴν πεῦσιν, ἥνπερ ἐποιήσασθε, διὰ τὸ μάλιστα τοὺς βουλομένους ματαίως θρυλεῖν περὶ ἡμῶν τινα ψευδῆ ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμεθα πληροφορῆσαι ὑμᾶς περὶ τούτου, οὐ μόνον ἐκ τῶν ὑποδειχθέντων τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὁσιότητι παρ' ἡμῶν γραμμάτων κοινωνικῶν πρὸς ἡμᾶς γραφέντων ὑπὸ τοῦ τρισμακαρίου πάπα Ἀθανασίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ ταύτης ἡμῶν τῆς ἐγγράφου ὁμολογίας, ὡς ὅτι οὔτε φρονοῦμεν οὔτε πεφρονήκαμέν τί ποτε ἐκτὸς τῆς κατὰ Νίκαιαν ὁρισθείσης οἰκουμενικῆς καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικῆς πίστεως, ἥνπερ ὁμολογοῦμεν † δυνάμει 3.266 ταύτην φρονεῖν, ἀναθεματίζοντες τοὺς τολμῶντας κτίσμα λέγειν τὸν υἱὸν ἢ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ τὴν Ἀρειανὴν αἵρεσιν καὶ Σαβελλίου καὶ Φωτεινοῦ καὶ Παύλου τοῦ Σαμοσατέως, καὶ τοὺς μὴ λέγοντας τὴν ἁγίαν τριάδα τρία πρόσωπα ἀπερίγραφα καὶ ἐνυπόστατα καὶ ὁμοούσια καὶ συναΐδια καὶ αὐτοτελῆ, ἀναθεματίζοντες δὲ καὶ τοὺς πλατυσμὸν ἢ συστολὴν ἢ ἐνέργειαν τοῦ πατρὸς τὸν υἱὸν λέγοντας, καὶ τοὺς τὸν θεὸν λόγον τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, προαιώνιον καὶ συναΐδιον τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ἐνυπόστατον καὶ αὐτοτελῆ υἱὸν καὶ θεὸν μὴ ὁμολογοῦντας. 12. Εἴ τις τὸν αὐτὸν πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα λέγει, ἀνάθεμα ἔστω. εἴ τις ἀρχὴν ἢ τέλος τῷ υἱῷ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ λόγῳ ἢ τῇ βασιλείᾳ αὐτοῦ δίδωσιν, ἀνάθεμα ἔστω. εἴ τις μέρος τοῦ πατρὸς λέγει τὸν υἱὸν ἢ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ μὴ ὁμολογεῖ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκ τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς οὐσίας πρὸ πάσης ἐπινοίας γεγενῆσθαι, ἀνάθεμα ἔστω. περὶ δὲ τῆς σαρκώσεως τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου, τοῦ μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὁμολογοῦμεν ὅτι ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἄνθρωπος γέγονε χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας, κατὰ πρόσληψιν πάσης τῆς ἀνθρωπείας φύσεως, τουτέστι ψυχῆς λογικῆς καὶ νοερᾶς καὶ σαρκὸς ἀνθρωπίνης. Πιστεύομεν εἰς ἕνα θεὸν πατέρα παντοκράτορα, πάντων ὁρατῶν τε καὶ ἀοράτων ποιητήν, καὶ εἰς ἕνα κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸν γεννηθέντα ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς μονογενῆ, τουτέστιν ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας τοῦ πατρός, θεὸν ἐκ θεοῦ, φῶς ἐκ φωτός, θεὸν ἀληθινὸν ἐκ θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ, γεννηθέντα, οὐ ποιηθέντα, ὁμοούσιον τῷ πατρί, δι' οὗ τὰ πάντα ἐγένετο, τά τε ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, τὸν δι' ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους καὶ διὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν κατελθόντα καὶ σαρκωθέντα καὶ ἐνανθρωπήσαντα, παθόντα καὶ ἀναστάντα τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, ἀνελθόντα εἰς τοὺς οὐρανούς, ἐρχόμενον κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς, καὶ εἰς τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα. τοὺς δὲ λέγοντας, ἦν ποτε ὅτε οὐκ ἦν, καὶ πρὶν γεννηθῆναι οὐκ ἦν, καὶ ὅτι ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων ἐγένετο, ἢ ἐξ ἑτέρας ὑποστάσεως ἢ οὐσίας φάσκοντας εἶναι, ἢ τρεπτὸν ἢ ἀλλοιωτὸν τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, τούτους ἀναθεματίζει ἡ καθολικὴ καὶ ἀποστολικὴ ἐκκλησία. ἐγὼ Φωτεινὸς πρεσβύτερος τῆς κατὰ Ἄγκυραν καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας οὕτω πιστεύω καὶ φρονῶ ὡς προγέγραπται. ἐγὼ Εὐστάθιος πρεσβύτερος τῆς αὐτῆς οὕτω πιστεύω καὶ φρονῶ ὡς προγέγραπται. 3.267 ἐγὼ Φωτεινὸς πρεσβύτερος τῆς αὐτῆς οὕτω πιστεύω καὶ φρονῶ ὡς προγέγραπται. ἐγὼ Σιγέριος πρεσβύτερος τῆς αὐτῆς οὕτω πιστεύω καὶ φρονῶ ὡς προγέγραπται. ἐγὼ Ὑγῖνος