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Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 57
John of Antioch, also called Malala, from his Chronography concerning the “Woman with the Issue of Blood, who erected a Monument to Christ.”From that time John the Baptist became known to men, and Herod,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 56
Jacob, when he was about to die, worshipped on the point of Joseph `s staff, not honouring the staff but its owner. just in the same way do we greet images as we should...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 55
Commentary.-Just, then, as “he who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent Him,” (Jn. 5.23) as our Lord says, so he who does not honour the image does not...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 54
And may Christ fill you with the joy of His resurrection, most holy flock of Christ, Christian people, chosen race, body of the Church, and make you worthy to walk in the footsteps of...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 53
If any man is to have his foolish way, in a short time the whole Organisation of the Church will be reduced to nothing. Brethren and beloved children of the Church do not put...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 52
The fourth kind of worship is that of images seen by the prophets. They saw God in sensible vision, and images of future things, as Aaron’s rod, the figure of Our Lady’s virginity, the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 51
Thus, those who approached through the apostles obtained their cures. Thus the shadow, and winding-sheets, and girdles of the apostles worked healings. (Acts 5.15) Those who perversely and profanely wish them to be adored...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 50
What we find worshipped in Scripture, and in how many ways we show worship to creaturesFirst, those places in which God, who alone is holy, has rested, and His resting-place in the saints, as...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 49
On the kinds of Adoration.The first kind is the worship of latreia, which we give to God, who alone is adorable by nature, and this worship is shown in several ways, and first by...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 48
The Son of God in person did not take the nature of the angels: He took the nature of man. The angels did not participate in the divine nature, but in working and in...