Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 67
As then Christ armed his Apostles against the ancient idolatry with the power of the Holy Spirit, and sent them out into all the world, so has he awakened against the new idolatry his...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 66
Throwing myself on the ground, and worshipping that holy floor, I came out, and went to her who had promised to be my security. When I came to the place in which the agreement...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 65
St Athanasius of Mount Sinai on the New Sabbath, and on St Thomas the Apostle.
Those who saw Christ in the flesh looked upon Him as a prophet. We, who have not seen Him, have...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 64
Jerome, Priest of Jerusalem, On The Holy Trinity.
As the Scripture nowhere enjoins you to worship the Cross, what makes you adore it? Tell us, Jews and heathens, and all inquiring people.
Answer.-On this account, O...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 63
St Cyril of Jerusalem, twelfth Instruction.
If you seek the cause of Christ’s presence, go back to the first chapter of Scripture. God made the world in six days, but the world was made for...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 62
Saint Athanasius against the Arians.–Book III.
The Son being of the same substance as the Father, He can justly say that He has what the Father has. Hence it was fitting and proper that after...
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 who would not worship the golden statue? How greatly foolish...
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 every available place, so that ever before me, I may...
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 mouths of foolish people speaking injustice may be closed. This...
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 with gold and silver. It is still standing in the...
