Excerpt from Some Thoughts on the Athanasian Creed My principal aim has been to assert the high value of the exposition of the Catholic Faith which is offered to us in this great Confession, and to dis tinguish between that exposition and the guarding clauses which accompany it. When the Confession was compiled in the fifth or sixth century, the exposition contained nothing that was new, for all its great phrases were well tested and familiar. What was new was the language in which the extreme malediction of God was denounced upon all who do not keep the Faith thus set forth. I have indicated my desire to preserve the exposition for the instruction of the members of our Church, and to release it from the guarding clauses which at present so gravely discredit it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.