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Two Armenian Creeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2011

Nerses Akinian  and
Robert P. Casey
Nerses Akinian
Affiliation:
Mechitaristenkongregation, Vienna
Robert P. Casey
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati
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Extract

Armenian dogmatic literature is rich in creeds, some of which remain unpublished. The two which follow have a claim on general interest because one bears the name of Athanasius, and is an Armenian counterpart to the famous Latin spurium, while the other is a curious commentary on a well-known text.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1931 , pp. 143 - 151
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1931

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References

1 The Armenians also have versions of the ‘Quicunque vult,’ among which is found considerable textual variation. Three manuscripts are employed by Tajezi, Opera Athanasii, Venice, 1899, pp. 478–481. A different version is found on ff. 30b-84b of Cod. Arm. 121 of the Bibliothèque Nationale, a Crimean paper manuscript of the fourteenth century.

2 Theodoras Lector, i. 20; Wigram, W. A., The Separation of the Monophysites. London, 1923, p. 29Google Scholar; Tixeront, Histoire des dogmes, III, Paris, 1922, pp. 105–106.

3 Hefele-Leclercq, Histoire des conciles, II. 2, pp. 873–874.

4 Cf. Gregory the Illuminator, Stromata II (Venice, 1838), p. 16, lusaworë zerkir ew or i sma en ararack’. Cf. Aphraates, Horn. 1, 15.

5 Cf. Gregory the Illuminator, ibid, p. 18, hogwoyn srboy or ałbiurabar bašxeac šnorhs yararacs.

6 The variants from the text published by J. Catergian, De fidei symbolo quo Ar-menii utuntur observationes, Vienna, 1893, pp. 1–2, are inconsiderable.

7 Catergian (pp. 19–21) supposes the Armenian text to have originated at the end of the sixth century and to have found its way into the liturgy early in the seventh.

8 So other MSS.; cf. Catergian, p. 18; but the vulgate text reads .

9 The Jews here intended are undoubtedly the so-called Heliognosti or Deinvictiaci, Philaster, Div. haer. liber, 10. The heathen are evidently Zoroastrians.

10 Epiphanius, Haer. 42, 8, 6 (see A. von Harnack, Marcion [Texte und Untersuch-ungen 44], p. 175). This detail is given by Eznik iv. 16 (Schmidt's transl., p. 204).

11 Probably the Hemerobaptists; cf. Epiphanius, Haer. 17.

12 Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Strom, vii. 106, 4.

13 Cf. Epiphanius, Haer. 40, 8.

14 Photinus, the follower of Marcellus of Ancyra; cf. Epiphanius, Haer. 71.

15 Porphyry, patriarch of Antioch A.D. 404–418; see Dictionary of Christian Biography, IV, p. 443.

16 Can this be a corruption of Zarathustra? Cf. note 7 above; on the wide variety of confusion over this name see A. V. Williams Jackson, Zoroaster the Prophet of Ancient Iran, New York, 1899, pp. 12 f.