IRENAEUS

The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: In one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father to gather all things in one, and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Savior, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess to Him, and that He should execute just judgment towards all; that He may send spiritual wickednesses, and the angels who transgressed and became apostates, together with the ungodly, and unrighteous, and wicked, and profane among men, into everlasting fire; but may, in the exercise of His grace, confer immortality on the righteous, and holy, and those who have kept His commandments, and have persevered in His love from the beginning of their repentance, and may surround them with everlasting glory.

H men gar ekklhsia, kaiper kaq olhV thV oikoumenhV ewV peratwn thV ghV diesparmenh, para de twn Apostolwn kai twn ekeinwn maqhtwn paralabousa thn pistin. EiV ena Qoen, Patera pantokratora, ton pepoihkota ton ouranon, kai thn ghn, kai taV qalassaV, kai panta ta en autoiV, pistin, kai eiV ena Criston Ihsoun, ton Uion tou Qeou, ton sarkwqenta uper thV hmeteraV swthriaV, kai eiV Pneuma Agion, to dia twn profhtwn kekhrucoV taV oikonomiaV kai taV eleuseiV, kai thn ek Parqenou gennhsin, dai to paqoV, kai thn egersin ek nekrwn, kai thn ensarkon eiV touV ouranouV analhyin tou hgaphmenou Cristou Ihsou, tou Kuriou hmwn, kai thn ek twn ouranwn en th doxh tou PatroV parousian autou, epi to anakefalaiwsasqai to panta, kai anasthsai pasan sarka pashV anqrwpothtoV, ina Cristw Ihsou, tw Kuriw hmwn, kai Qew, kai Swthri, kai basilei, kata thn eudokian tou PatroV tou aoratou, pan gonu kamyh epouraniwn kai epigeiwn kai katacqoniwn, kai pasa glwssa exomologhshtai autw, kai krisin dikaian en toiV pasi poihshtai, ta men pneumatika thV ponhriaV, kai aggelouV parabebhkotaV, kai en apostasia gegonotaV, kai touV asebeiV, kai adikouV kai anomouV kai blasfhmouV twn anqrwpwn eiV to aiwnion pur pemyh, toiV de dikaioiV, kai osioiV, kai taV entolaV autou tethrhkosi kai en th agaph autou diamemenhkosi, toiV ap archV, toiV de ek metanoiaV, zwhn carisamenoV, afqarsian dwrhshtai, kai doxan aiwnian peripoihsh.