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[[User:Hans|Hans]] 08:17, February 28, 2007 (PST)
::On the discussion page of Athanasian Creed article I have added new material without response. Resumé from other discussion page on same thing:
:::In the year 1644, Gerard Voss, in his "De Tribus Symbolis", gave weighty probability to the opinion that St. Athanasius was not its author. His reasons may be reduced to the two following: > >firstly, no early writer of authority speaks of it as the work of this doctor; and >secondly, its language and structure point to a Western, rather than to an Alexandrian, origin."
:::Both points are answered by the hypothesis that St Athanasius wrote them in simple Latin (which he never fully mastered, and in which he dared no stylistic flourish) when he met the men of Augusta Treverorum (Trier, Trèves) who know no Greek, during his two year exile there. And that it was for that very reason preserved independently of the Greek tradition until very late.
*[[http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3001.htm#10"Secunda Secundae, Qi A10, ad3"]] (scroll down)
