Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 24
Taken word for word from the Life of St John Chrysostom.
Blessed John loved the epistles of St Paul exceedingly. . . . He had...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 23
How was it that the image of the serpent worked salvation to the people in distress? Would it not have been more reasonable to...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 22
For instance, the rod of Moses, the tablets of the law, the burning bush, the rock giving forth water, the ark containing the manna,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 21
And again, How does God order us to worship the earth and mountains? “Exalt the Lord your God and worship Him upon His holy...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 20
Commentary.–You see that the divine beauty is not set forth in form or shape, and on this account it cannot be conveyed by an...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 19
Commentary.-What better proof have we that images are the books of the illiterate, the ever-speaking heralds of honouring the saints, teaching those who gaze...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 18
Commentary.-The remembrance of the saints is thus, you see, a glory to God, praise of the saints, joy and salvation to the whole world....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 17
If you say that only intellectual worship befits God, take away all corporeal things, light, and fragrance, prayer itself through the physical voice, the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 16
Commentary.-If, then, it be rational that we are led to the divine vision by sensible images, and if Divine Providence mercifully clothes in form...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 15
We have seen that prophets worshipped angels, and men, and kings, and the impious, and even a staff. David says, “And you adore His...
