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...
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...
