Note (return) — Chapter III
Neil Buchanan translation
One can plainly see that the articles contained in the Kerygma were guarded and defended in their reality (κατ' αληθειαν) by the professional teachers of the Church, against sweeping attempts at explaining them away, or open attacks on them.269 But they did not yet possess the value of dogmas, for they were neither put in an indissoluble union with the idea of salvation, nor were they stereotyped in their extent, nor were fixed limits set to the imagination in the concrete delineation and conception of them.270