Fragment of a letter from Eusebius of Nicomedia to the Council of Nicaea
Reference numbers | Urk. 21 Doc. 23 CPG 2047 |
Incipit | [Si verum inquit] |
Date | June 325 |
Ancient source | Ambrose, On the Christian Faith 3.15 |
Modern edition used | Opitz, Hans-Georg, Urkunden zur Geschichte des arianischen Streites, 318-328 (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1934) p. 42 |
[Eusebius, the originator of these things, shows this to be true when he writes in his letter:]
If we say that the Son of God is also uncreated, we begin to confess that he is of one being (homoousios) with the Father!
[After this letter was read at the Council of Nicaea, the fathers put this same word into their explanation of the faith, because they saw that it was terrifying to their opponents.]
Translation by AJW
Other translations in Hanson, p. 31; NPNF2 vol. 10, p. 260
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