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...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 14
These are the great Basil’s words. How do we know the Holy place of Calvary, or the Holy Sepulchre? Does it not rest on...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 13
The just man is not bound by the law. (I. Tim. 1.9) We are not held by the letter of the law, nor do...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 12
They have withstood sin unto blood, and followed Christ in shedding their blood for Him, who shed His blood for them. I put on...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 11
God charged David to build Him a temple through his son, and to prepare a place of rest. Solomon, in building the temple, made...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 10
And God ordered twelve stones to be taken out of the Jordan, and specified why. For he says: “When your son asks you the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 9
And I have given him for his companion, Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 8
Of old, God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed was never depicted. Now, however, when God is seen clothed in flesh, and conversing with men, (Bar....