EXPOSITION OF THE APOSTLES' CREED By THE REV. JAMES DODDS, D.D. * * * * * Though I am an old Doctor of Divinity, to this day I have not got beyond the children's learning--the Ten Commandments, the Belief, and the Lord's Prayer; and these I understand not so well as I should, though I study them daily, praying with my son John and my daughter Magdalen.--LUTHER'S _Table-Talk_. * * * * * CONTENTS EDITORIAL NOTE PREFATORY NOTE INTRODUCTION ARTICLE 1 I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH SECTION 1. I BELIEVE 2. GOD 3. THE FATHER 4. ALMIGHTY 5. MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH 2 AND IN JESUS CHRIST HIS ONLY SON OUR LORD SECTION 1. AND IN JESUS CHRIST 2. JESUS 3. CHRIST 4. HIS ONLY SON 5. OUR LORD 3 WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST, BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY 4 SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED SECTION 1. SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE 2. WAS CRUCIFIED 3. DEAD 4. AND BURIED 5 HE DESCENDED INTO HELL, THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD SECTION 1. HE DESCENDED INTO HELL 2. THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD 6 HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY 7 FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD 8 I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST 9 THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS SECTION 1. THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH 2. THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS 10 THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS 11 THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY 12 AND THE LIFE EVERLASTING * * * * * APPENDIX FOOTNOTES SOME BOOKS ON THE APOSTLES' CREED OR BEARING UPON ARTICLES THEREOF * * * * * EDITORIAL NOTE Dr. Dodds' _Exposition of the Apostles' Creed_ will supply a real need. It contains a careful, well-informed, and well-balanced statement of the doctrines of the Church which are expressed or indicated in the Creed, and it will be helpful to many as arranging the passages of Scripture on which these doctrines rest. Though historical references could have been easily made, the Editors agree with the author in thinking that to insert them in the discussion of doctrines would have probably perplexed the readers for whom the book is designed. _February_ 1896. * * * * * PREFATORY NOTE The title and purpose of this Handbook limit its subject matter to an exposition of the doctrines which have place in the summary of belief termed the Apostles' Creed. It is not meant to cover the whole field of Christian doctrine.