On the Third Day He Rose According to the Scriptures

So in my Episcopal Mass today, I started reflecting on my Roman Catholic roots during the recitation of the Nicene Creed. I thought it was unique to the Episcopalian church that finds this distinctive reading of the Nicene Creed in the following line about Jesus’ resurrection:

“On the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures.”

Growing up as a Roman Catholic, we recited the version as follows:

“On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures.”

Now, as far as English translations go, the words have a different feel and even theological projection. Reading the Episcopal version, there is a sense that what happened was as it was, and the Scriptures authenticate this remembrance. But the Roman Catholic version seemed to retain a sense of the supernatural. For Jesus’ raising from the dead to life was a fulfillment, i.e., the Scriptures spoken of here seemed to refer to the Old Testament Scriptures being fulfilled in the New Testament’s record of the event. I do note that a 1850s Roman Catholic prayer book retains “according” to the Scriptures, so I can’t say with any confidence why the versions differ or why one survives in the Mass, but interesting nonetheless.