1Eunomius opens his confession, made at the emperor's command, with faith in the one true God, who alone is without beginning and shares his Godhead with no one.
2Eunomius confesses the Son as the only-begotten God, begotten and created before all creation, like the Father only as Son to Father, the agent of creation, judgment, and salvation.
3Eunomius confesses the Holy Spirit as the first and greatest work of the Only-begotten, subordinate to him, and lists the Spirit's works among the faithful.
4Eunomius confesses the bodily resurrection and the final judgment, and ends by declaring that he has added nothing and omitted nothing from what he learned.
authentic · The confession of faith that Eunomius handed to Theodosius I at the conference of the sects at Constantinople in June 383, preserved in Valesius's notes to Socrates, Historia ecclesiastica 5.10 (PG 67), from a Florentine manuscript where it stood before Gregory of Nyssa's books against Eunomius. Its authenticity is not doubted.
Standing
This work stood outside the church of its own time, and no later tradition receives it. Anomoean (neo-Arian) bishop of Cyzicus who founded a separate Eunomian church; refused communion by the Nicene churches and by the imperial Homoian church after 360, condemned at Constantinople (381); honoured in no church calendar.
Date
383 (probable) · Offered to Theodosius in 383 at the court conference of the Nicene, Homoian, Eunomian and Macedonian parties (Socrates, Hist. eccl. 5.10).
Written at
Constantinople, Thrace (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
section 1-4, the project's numbering of the four creedal paragraphs (God the Father; the Son; the Holy Spirit; resurrection and judgment); the text has no traditional divisions
SBL abbreviation
Exp. fid.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 3457 (not yet checked)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Graeca 67 (Paris: Migne, 1864), cols. 587-590 (Valesius's annotations on Socrates, Historia ecclesiastica 5.10, reprinting H. Valesius, Paris, 1668) (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription of a public-domain page image (Bavarian State Library scan), repaired by hand)
Critical editions
Richard Paul Vaggione, ed., Eunomius: The Extant Works (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987) (cited, not reproduced)