was the Quicunque as it stands — although it is some-
what hard to believe that the document to which they
referred already condemned in the terms with which
we are so familiar the Greeks who were worshipping
around them. And yet even so, I think I shall be able
to convince the unprejudiced that the framers of the
Quicunque combined two earlier documents which were
up to that time distinct, the one bearing on the Trinity
the other bearing on the Incarnation: that in their
action they modified these documents, adding more or
less to both of them, and above all they increased the
severity of at least the final commending clause. The
date of this could not be before the time of Charle-
magne — the character of the Latin seems to prove that.
Therefore, if it took place after the discovery of the
fragment at Treves, we cannot assign the transaction to
a date much before 800. That is to say, so far as this
creed is concerned, we come to a date nearly 350 years
after the reception of the Credenda contained in it, before
we find these Credenda pressed with the urgency to which
we object so strongly.
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The chief alteration was in the words : " This is the
"Catholic Faith which everyone who desires to attain
" eternal life ought to know entirely and to guard faith-
" fully;" this being the form discovered at Treves.
Thus, mjr lord, as bearing on the present contro-
versy I conceive that it is important that we can point
out the century in which this alteration took place.
