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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 41
Where do you find in the Old Testament or in the Gospel the Trinity, or consubstantiality, or one Godhead, or three persons, or the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 40
St Maximus, Philosopher and Confessor. From his “Acts” and those of Bishop Theodosius.
And after this all rose with tears of devotion, and kneeling down,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 39
And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies; having a golden censer, and the ark of the testament...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 38
Listen to our Lord’s words: “Ye foolish and blind, whosoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in...
