St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις)John of Damascus, Saint
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St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις)
John of Damascus, Saint
Icons -- Cult; Idols and images -- Worship; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Assumption -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800
Burning bush, image of Our Lady, 79.
Cherubim, image of, 14.
Chrysostom, St John, his testimony, 83, 118, 121; on the Machabees, 137;
to Julian the Apostate, 138.
Church assailed by enemies, 1.
Constantine, zeal for images, 126.
Cross, veneration of, 78, 130, 134.
Cyril of Alexandria, St, 121.
Cyril of Jerusalem, 137; to Julian the Apostate, 138.
Daniel and David, worship of, 13.
Denis the Areopagite, 10; on images, 31, 96.
Denis, St, of Athens, 116.
Deuteronomy, testimony of, 6, 63.
Divine things clothed in form, 99.
Egyptians, their burial, 29.
Elias taken to heaven, 166.
Eliseus, a wonder-worker, 45.
Epiphanius, St, on images, 29, 77.
Eupraxia, St, 51.
Ezechiel, his vision, 46, 128, 162.
Forty martyrs, 38, 40, 117.
Francis de Sales, St, on the Cross, 47.
Gabriel, St, sent to Mary, 157.
Godhead, not to be represented, 5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 62, 67, 98. Gregory of
Nazianzen, St, 122.
Gregory of Nyssa, St, 41.
Holy places, 109; things, 110.
Homer, on the gods, 193.
Idolatry of Israelites, 80.
Idol worship of heathens, 77.
Images, dishonour shown to, 68, 85; worship of, 74, 75, 89; definition
of, 92; kinds, 93, 94, 95, 97, 106, 133; of saints, a fruitful worship,
112.
Invisible things through visible, 11.
Isaias, his vision of God, 100; virgin foretold by, 162.
Jacob, his worship, 9, 13, 131; typical, 27; receiving Joseph’s cloak,
132; ladder of, 161.
Jews, their proneness to idolatry, 8.
Jezabel, punishment of, 70.
Joachim, St, 154.
Jordan, stones of, 20, 97.
Joseph, worshipped by brothers, 14.
Josue, worshipped an angel, 101.
King’s image, value of, 136; kings not legislators in the Church, 52,
69, 76.
Latreia, worship of, 7; given to God alone, 64, 104, 107.
Law, image of the future, 82, 140; observances of, 18; images of, 46,
49, 81, 88; superseded by grace, 73.
Leo of Neapolis, on the Cross, 43.
Matter not despicable, 17, 71, 72; consecrated, 127.
Mary of Egypt, St, praying to Our Lady, 51, 143, 145.
Maximus, St, his testimony, 84.
Methodius, St, on images, 145.
Moses, testimony of, 53, 60, 65; worships Jethor, 134.
Mother of God, 12; images of, 97; worship of, 54, 91; death of, 164,
186; her Assumption, 166, 167, 173, 176; the city of God, 148; her
praises, 150; her birth, 150; her presentation, 156; her grace, 158; her
virginity, 159, 173; a spiritual Eden, 160; her intercession, what, 169;
the new Eden, 174; heaven, 175; her death, painless, 177; eye-witnesses
of, 181; saint of saints, 178; her right to worship of all, 192;
heavenly bridals of, 203; fountain of life, 206.
Our Lord’s human birth, 194.
Persecutors of saints punished, 70.
Peter, St, chief of apostles, 26.
Pharao worshipped by Jacob, 9.
Saints, why honoured, 21, 23, 24; their shadow, 113; our worship of,
108.
Scripture, true interpretation of, 66.
Severianus, on the Cross, 139.
Simon Stylites, St, venerated in Rome, 119.
Sion, what, 179
Solomon and the temple, 22, 45, 129.
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