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Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 47
Who first made an Image.In the beginning God begot His only begotten Son, His word, the living image of Himself, the natural and unchangeable image of His eternity. And He made man after His...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 46
Fourth Chapter. What an Image is, what it is not; and how each Image is to be set forth.Bodies as having form and shape and colour, may properly be represented in image. Now if...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 45
Anyone would say that our incapacity for reaching the contemplation of intellectual things, and our need of familiar and cognate mediums, make it necessary that immaterial things should be clothed in form and shape....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 44
The Father begets, being unbegotten. The Son is begotten, and is not the Father, and the Holy Spirit is the image of the Son. For no one can say the Lord Jesus, except in...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 43
1st Point.–What is an Image?An image is a likeness and representation of some one, containing in itself the person who is imaged. The image is not wont to be an exact reproduction of the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 42
And baptism likewise is double, of water and the spirit. So is communion and prayer and psalmody; everything has a double signification, a corporeal and a spiritual. Thus again, with lights and incense. The...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 41
Where do you find in the Old Testament or in the Gospel the Trinity, or consubstantiality, or one Godhead, or three persons, or the one substance of Christ, or His two natures, expressed in...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 40
St Maximus, Philosopher and Confessor. From his “Acts” and those of Bishop Theodosius.And after this all rose with tears of devotion, and kneeling down, prayed. And every one kissed the holy Gospels, and the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 39
And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies; having a golden censer, and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 38
Listen to our Lord’s words: “Ye foolish and blind, whosoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it; and he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the...