John of Damascus part 34
For as often as they are seen in their pictorial representations, people who look at them are ardently lifted up to the memory and...
John of Damascus part 33
This reverence will be expressed in signs determined by custom and etiquette. It must be noted that all outward marks of respect are only...
John of Damascus part 32
So in the First Commandment we must distinguish the clauses — “Thou shalt not have strange gods before me”, “Thou shall not adore them...
John of Damascus part 31
The count paid the expenses. Soon after, at his death, by his will (dated 3 July, 1636) he left considerable property to the chapter...
John of Damascus part 30
The coronation of images is an example of an old and obvious symbolic sign of honour that has become a fixed rite. The Greek...
John of Damascus part 29
In both East and West the reverence we pay to images has crystallized into formal ritual. In the Latin Rite the priest is commanded...
John of Damascus part 28
But there is a difference not of principle but of practice between East and West, to which we have already alluded. Especially since Iconoclasm,...
John of Damascus part 27
Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) tore down a curtain in a church in Palestine because it had a picture of Christ or a saint....
John of Damascus part 26
Long before the outbreak in the eighth century there were isolated cases of persons who feared the ever-growing cult of images and saw in...
John of Damascus part 25
A curious story, that illustrates the length to which theworship of images had gone by the eighth century, is told in the “New Garden”...
