The Creed

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem.
ælmihtig fæder         up on rodore,
þe ða sciran gesceaft         sceope and worhtest
and eorðan wang         ealne gesettest,
ic þe ecne god         ænne gecenne,

5

lustum gelyfe.         þu eart lifes frea,
engla ordfruma,         eorðan wealdend,
and ðu garsecges         grundas geworhtest,
and þu ða menegu canst         mærra tungla.
Et in Iesum Christum filium eius unicum, dominum nostrum.
Ic on sunu þinne         soðne gelyfe,

10

hælendne cyning,         hider asendne
of ðam uplican         engla rice,
þone Gabriel,         godes ærendraca,
sanctan Marian         sylfre gebodode.
Ides unmæne,         heo þæt ærende

15

onfeng freolice,         and ðe fæder sylfne
under breostcofan         bearn acende.
Næs ðær gefremmed         firen æt giftum,
ac þær halig gast         handgyft sealde,
þære fæmnan bosm         fylde mid blisse,

20

and heo cuðlice         cende swa mærne
eorðbuendum         engla scyppend,
se to frofre gewearð         foldbuendum,
and ymbe Bethleem         bodedan englas
þæt acenned wæs         Crist on eorðan.

25

Passus sub Pontio Pilato.
ða se pontisca         Pilatus weold
under Romwarum         rices and doma,
þa se deora frea         deað þrowade,
on gealgan stah,         gumena drihten,
þone geomormod         Iosep byrigde,

30

and he of helle         huðe gefette,
of þam suslhofe,         sawla manega,
het ða uplicne         eþel secan.
Tertia die resurrexit a mortuis.
þæs þy ðriddan dæge         þeoda wealdend
aras, rices frea,         recene of moldan,

35

and he XL daga         folgeras sine
runum arette,         and ða his rice began,
þone uplican         eðel secan,
cwæð þæt he nolde         nænne forlætan
þe him forð ofer þæt         fylian wolde

40

and mid fæstum sefan         freode gelæstan.
Credo in spiritum sanctum.
Ic haligne gast         hihte beluce,
emne swa ecne         swa is aðor gecweden,
fæder oððe freobearn,         folca gereordum.
Ne synd þæt þreo godas,         þriwa genemned,

45

ac is an god,         se ðe ealle hafað
þa þry naman         þinga gerynum,
soð and sigefæst         ofer side gesceaft,
wereda wuldorgyfa,         wlanc and ece.
Sanctum æcclesiam catholicam.
Eac ic gelyfe         þæt syn leofe gode

50

þe þurh ænne geþanc         ealdor heriað,
heofona heahcyning         her for life,
Sanctorum communionem.
and ic gemænscipe         mærne getreowe
þinra haligra         her for life.
Remissionem peccatorum.
Lisse ic gelyfe         leahtra gehwylces,

55

Carnis resurrectionem.
and ic þone ærest         ealra getreowe,
flæsces on foldan         on þa forhtan tid,
Et uitam æternam.
þær ðu ece lif         eallum dælest,
swa her manna gehwylc         metode gecwemað.