Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 61
If I honour the images of false gods, how can I praise and glorify and keep the feast of the three children at Babylon...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 60
On this account I depict Christ and His sufferings in churches, and houses, and public places, and images, on clothes, and store-houses, and in...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 59
St Leontius of Naples, in Cyprus, against the Jews-Book v.Enter then heartily into our apology for the making of sacred images, so that the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 58
And immediately Berenice the sick woman of yore, set up in the midst of her own city of Paneada a monument in bronze, adorned...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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....
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,...
