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Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 27
The truth proclaims also that in Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, there are two natures and one person. Now, the devil,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 26
The man who received one, and buried it, gave it back without interest, and being pronounced a wicked servant, was banished into external darkness....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 25
If any one should enter a house and should see on the walls a history in painting of Moses and Aaron, perchance he might...
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....
