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.
Caput XIII: Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis.
Caput XIV: Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.
Caput XV: Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus, et sepultus est.
Caput XVI: Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas.
Caput XVII: Et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Caput XVIII: Et iterum venturus est cum gloria, iudicare vivos et mortuos.
And he will come again with glory, to judge the living and the dead.
Behold the seventh article, containing the last coming. Hence it is elegantly said:
With glory.
The first coming was of humility, the second of majesty. The first was so that he might be judged, the second so that the world might be judged by him.
To judge the living and the dead.
That is, those who will then be found living, and those who then were dead. Or "the living," that is, those to be saved, and "the dead," that is, those to be damned. And note that judgment is specially attributed to the Son, and yet it will belong to the whole Trinity, because it will belong to the Son not only in authority, but also in execution.