Primary source · Koine Greek
A Declaration of Faith
Gregory Thaumaturgus · c. AD 260–270
What this text is
The short creed the Wonder-worker was said to have received in a night vision from John the Evangelist at Mary's bidding — the treasured baptismal confession of Pontus, quoted by Gregory of Nyssa from the original in Neocaesarea.
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Interlinear passages
Word-for-word glosses of the original; the complete public-domain translation is linked below.
The opening clause
ΕἷςOneΘεός,GodπατὴρFatherλόγουof the Wordζῶντος,livingσοφίαςof Wisdomὑφεστώσηςsubsistingκαὶandδυνάμεωςof Power
Public-domain translations
S. D. F. Salmond (ANF, 1886)
There is one God, the Father of the living Word, who is His subsistent Wisdom and Power and Eternal Image… And there is one Holy Spirit, having His subsistence from God… a perfect Trinity, not divided nor differing in glory and eternity and sovereignty.
Manuscript witnesses
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus (carrier)
c. 380 (medieval copies)Nyssa transcribes the creed whole, a century on, as a family and regional inheritance.
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 10 (Migne)
1857Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Neocaesarea, c. AD 260–270 — the creed of the Wonderworker
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- St. Gregory Thaumaturgus: Life and Works (FOC 98)Michael Slusser, 1998Faithful annotated translation.
- Gregory Thaumaturgus (Early Christian studies)(in) Mitchell, The Cult of St Gregory, 1999–The Wonderworker's tradition assessed.