Chapter 10 THE APOSTLES' CREED - Reconstruction according to the oldest known versions
Chapter 10 THE APOSTLES' CREED - Reconstruction according to the oldest known versions The so called APOSTLES' CREED was written in Greek language (later translated in Latin), around 135 AD - possible in Rome - as a synthesis of what the apostles believed, to oppose the virulent pseudo-christian Gnostic sects. The Apostles’ Creed is the earliest known biblical Christian creed. The idea of God as a trinity, Christ’s descending in hell, the immediate after-death judgement and the endless torment of the sinners is not hinted. In Italy and Gaul, in the fifth century, the phrase “ he descended into hell ” came into the creed. In Latin Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem (pantokratora - Hippolytus and Marcellus), creatórem cæli et terræ. Et in Iesum Christum, Fílium eius únicum, Dóminum nostrum, qui concéptus est de Spíritu Sancto, natus ex María Vírgine, passus sub Póntio Piláto, crucifíxus, mórtuus et sepúltus, (descéndit...