Z historii interpretacji nicejskiego wyznania wiary
From the history of the interpretation of the Nicene Creed

Summary/Abstract: The article presents two fragments of the fourth century confined to the interpretation of the Nicene Creed. They describe the relationship between the Father and his Son in the Holy Trinity. The first fragment consists of the beginning of the Fourth Address against the Arians attributed to Athanasius, the second comes from the volume "for the inhabitants of Anthioche" where St. Athanasius gives two different interpretations of the Nicene Creed by judging both Orthodox. The two Christian groups, the Meltius and Paulinus supporters, accepted both of these interpretations. The comparison of these two texts shows that the ideas of the author of the Fourth Speech against the Arians are very similar to the ideas of the partisans of Paulinus, a conservative group, related to Anthioche's theological traditions. We can therefore believe that the unknown author of the Fourth Speech is related to this group and that he wrote his work about the same time as the volume for the inhabitants of Anthioche, perhaps a few years before 362.

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