They convened, and their number was about two thousand men; they drafted a statement (1) but then rejected it and would not accept it.

After that, three hundred and eighteen of them—whom the Christians call “the Fathers”—gathered and issued the formula to which they still adhere today. It is the foundation of all foundations for every one of their sects; no one among them is considered a Christian without it. They name it the “Synod,” that is, “the Creed.”

Its wording is: “We believe in God, the one Father, Creator of what is seen and what is unseen; and in the one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the First-born of His Father, not made, true God from true God, of the very essence of His Father, by whose hand (2) the worlds were perfected and everything was created; who for us human beings—and for the sake of our salvation—came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and of Mary the Virgin. (And Mary the Virgin conceived him) (3) and bore him; he was taken, crucified, and slain in the days of Pilate (4) the Roman; he died and was buried; he rose (5) on the third day, as it is written; he ascended into heaven and sat at the right hand of his Father, and he is ready to come again to judge the dead and the living.

And we believe (6) in the one Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from His Father, the Spirit of His love (7); and in one baptism (8) for the forgiveness of sins; and in one congregation…"