whom he neither saw nor touched,”8 thus, as orthodoxy read the words, confessing him as identical with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as “my Lord and my God” (ὁ κύριός μου καὶ ὁ θεός μου) (John 20:28). From this time, rather than from that covered by the main body of the Gospels, the disciples’ learning “the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matt. 28:19) can be dated, and therefore the skeletal outline of the creed, oral at first and later (much later) written down