Tome to the Antiochenes

Contents

1. 1The council of Alexandria (362) writes to the bishops sent to Antioch, rejoicing that many wish to return to communion and praying for one faith among all.
2. 2The bishops explain that church business kept them in Egypt, and that Eusebius and Asterius go to Antioch in their stead.
3. 3The council sets the terms for reunion at Antioch: anathematize Arianism, confess the Nicene faith, and deny that the Holy Spirit is a creature.
4. 4The council asks that nothing beyond the Nicene faith be required of either party at Antioch.
5. 5The council rejects the so-called creed of Sardica and records how those who spoke of three hypostases and those who spoke of one hypostasis explained themselves and were found to agree in the Nicene faith.
6. 7The council records that both parties confessed that the Word himself became flesh, with a body not without soul or mind, and that one and the same Son acted both humanly and divinely.
7. 8The council urges that those who explain their terms in an orthodox sense be received, and that all stop quarreling over words.
8. 9The council asks that the letter be read publicly at Antioch and that the reunited parties then hold common assemblies; Athanasius and the others sign.
9. 10The list of the bishops to whom the Tome was sent and of those who sent it, with the subscriptions of Eusebius of Vercelli and Asterius.
10. 11Paulinus of Antioch subscribes to the Tome, confessing three perfect subsistents in one Godhead, the true incarnation of the Word, and the Nicene faith.