The Church Fathers · 589
The Acts of the Third Council of Toledo
The Third Council of Toledo
What it is
King Reccared and the Visigothic nobility renounce Arianism before seventy-two bishops, the Arian books are ordered burned, and the creed is to be sung at every mass — recited, in the Spanish text, with the Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son.
Why it lasted
The end of Gothic Arianism and the birth of Catholic Spain. It also carries the earliest conciliar use of the filioque, added in Spain to make a point against Arians and inherited by the whole Latin West, which is how the clause that split East from West got in.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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