Expositio super symbolum Nicenum
Alan of Lille (1120–1202)
A commentary on the Nicene Creed by Alan.
Prologus I: Expositio super symbolum Nicenum.
Caput I: Credo in unum Deum.
Caput II: Patrem.
Caput III: Omnipotentem.
Caput IV: Factorem caeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium.
Caput V: Et in unum Dominum.
Caput VI: Iesum Christum.
Caput VII: Filium Dei unigenitum.
Caput VIII: Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.
Caput IX: Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero.
Caput X: Genitum, non factum.
Caput XI: Consubstantialem Patri.
Caput XII: Per quem omnia facta sunt.
Through whom all things were made.
This is said against the Manichaean, who taught that only invisible things were from Christ. Hence John: "All things were made through him."1 All substance, I say, all property. The second article of the apostolic symbol contains the same, where it is said: "and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord." What is contained explicitly in the Nicene symbol is contained here implicitly. What is called there "only" is called here "only-begotten."