乌非拉(Ulfilas)的信经

乌非拉(Ulfilas)的信经

亚流派的歌德使徒

I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his onlybegotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him (so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: “And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49) and again “But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8); being neither God (the Father) nor our God (Christ), but the minister of Christ … subject and obedient in all things to the Son; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father … (whom) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.

我,乌非拉,主教与认信者,总是相信这乃是唯一真正的信仰,使得我得以见主;我相信一位父神,唯一非受生和不可见的,以及他独生的儿子,我们的主和神,万有的设计者与创造者,没有任何事物像他一样(以至于在万有中唯有祂是父神,也唯有他是我们的神的神);在一位圣灵中,有光照和圣别的能力,就像基督在复活后对祂的使徒说的一样:‘我要将我父所应许的降在你们身上,你们要在城里等候,直到你们领受从上头来的能力。(路加24:49)’,又说‘但圣灵降临在你们身上,你们就必得著能力,并要在耶路撒冷、犹太全地,和撒玛利亚,直到地极,作我的见证。(行传1:8)’;祂(圣灵)并不是神(父)也不是我们的神(基督),而是基督的执事。。。在万事上顺从并顺服子;子在万事上顺从并顺服那位是父的神。。。。是祂借由祂的基督在圣灵中所任命的。