Scotus Academicus, Tomus octavus: De Divino Gratiae Beneficio, et initium De Virtutibus Theologicis

I answer, that this ought to seem doubtful to no Catholic; since this very thing the Holy Fathers plainly hand down, and most especially St. Clement, Epist. 1. ad Iacobum, and lib. 1. Recognitionum: St. Ambrose Serm. 38. Chrysostom Homil. 1. et 2. De Symbolo, Augustine Serm. 115. et 118. De Tempore, and St. Leo Epist. 13. ad Pulcheriam, and Serm. 3. De Passione, where he says: Ipsa Catholici Symboli brevis et perfecta confessio duodecim Apostolorum est insignita sententia. Whence Baronius ad an. 11. judges that the Symbol was composed in the tenth year after the Passion of Christ, namely before the Apostles were divided into various provinces. This also can be urged from the reason alleged by those same Holy Fathers just praised, who will that on this account the Apostles published this Symbol, that they might have one and the same rule of faith, which all of them would propose to all peoples. Secondly, that each individual Faithful might the more easily commit this brief formula of faith to memory, and profess it more frequently. Thus Augustine Hom. 12. in Serm. De Symbolo. Thirdly, that by this brief formula the faithful might be fortified as if by a shield against all the frauds of heretics. So St. Chrysostom Hom. De Symbolo. Those same Fathers add that the Apostols did not hand down this Symbol in writing, but verbally: Lest, says Eusebius Emissenus Hom. 2. De Symbolo, it could be corrupted and vitiated by heretics. Whence it is no wonder if this Symbol is not held by the faithful as Sacred Scripture, since it was not written by the Apostles, but handed over to the faithful, that it might be preserved in their memory. Add that although the Apostles delivered it with the Holy Spirit ruling and governing as regards the truth of the sentences, yet not dictating the individual words, which seems necessary for Canonical Scripture: and moreover, although it be certain that this Symbol was published by the Apostles, yet it is not of faith, nor defined by the Church, nor received by her among the divine Scriptures.