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
Spiritual conceptions through corporeal things, 90.
Tomb of Our Lady, 196, 197, 205, 210; fairer than Eden, 204.
Tradition, ancient, 114; unwritten, 75.
Types, honourable, 142.
Worship, false, 56, 57, 58; kinds of, 104, 105, 106, 108, 111.
¹ θεοπάτωρ, not easily rendered in English.
² Κaὶ τοῦτον ὥσπερ ἵππον εὐχἀλινον, τῆς ἀετηρίας παρώρμησα.
³ άπερίγαπτος, _i.e.,_ not in place.
⁴ ἀλλα μην καί ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τῆς ῥάβδου.
⁵ Τὴν ἁγιαν παρθένον καί θεοτόκον.
⁶ A reference to the question treated by St Thomas after St John
Damascene: _utrum angelus sit in loco._
⁷ δήσας τὸν ίσχυρὸν.
⁸ την κορυαίαν ακροτητα τῶν ἀπόστολων.
⁹ τα θεια μυστήρια—the Mass.
¹⁰ τεττιξ.
¹¹ τῃ τοὺ κυρίου πρὸς θείον ἐκπυρσευθέντα ἔρωτα ἀκοῇ.
¹² A short passage from St John Chrysostom, which follows, is omitted
on account of Editor’s note: _locus hic mihi non occurrit apud
Chrysostomum in Epistolam ad Hebræos._
¹³ Compare—
Ce n’est ni la pierre ni le bois
Que le catholique adore;
Mais c’est le Roi qui mort en croix
De Son Sang la croix honore.
— Vie de St Frangois de Sales, par M. Hamond.
¹⁴ A testimony quoted from Sophronius is here suppressed.
¹⁵ See St Augustine, de Civitate Dei: Nemo igitur quærat efficientem
causam malæ voluntatis; non enim est efficiens, sed deficiens,
quia nec illa effectio sed defectio (xii. c. vii).
¹⁶ βασιλέων ἐστὶν ἡ πολιτικὴ εὐπραζία; ἡ δὲ ἐκκλησιαστικὴ κατάστασις,
ποιμένων καὶ διδασκαλων. ληστρικὴ ἔοδος ἐστιν αὕτη.
¹⁷ γυμνώσατω ἑαυτὸν τοῦ οἰκείου στρατεύματος ὁ επίγειος βασιλεὺς, καὶ
τότε τὸν ἐαυτου βασιλέα καὶ κύριον. Ἀποθέσθω τὴν ἀλoυργίδα καὶ το
δίαδημα καὶ τότε τῶν κατὰ τοῦ τυράννου ἀριστευσάντων, καὶ
βασιλέυσαντων τῶν παθῶν σέβας περιαιρείτω.
¹⁸ The first quotations are only repetitions, and are consequently
omitted.
¹⁹ Two slight omissions, viz., St Chrysostom and St Ambrose.
²⁰ A repetition up to ι (χ), where the translation begins.
²¹ τρεις ὑποστασεις.
²² ύσει γαρ νοούμενα.
²³ θεορῥήμων.
²⁴ θεότητι γὰρ καθ’ ὑπόστασιν ἥνωται, καὶ δύο ύσεις ἐν τῳ
μεταλαμβανομένῳ ὑ’ ἡμῶν σώματι τοῦ χριστοῦ, ἡνωμεναι καθ’
ὑπόστασιν εἰσιν ἀδιασπάστως, καὶ τῶν δύο ύσεων μετέχομεν, τοῦ
σώματος, σωματικῶς, τῆς θεότητος, πνευματικῶς· μᾶλλον δἠ ἀμοῖν
κατ’ ἄμω· οὐ καθ’ ὑπόστασιν ταυτιζόμενοι· ὑιστάμεθα γὰρ προτον,
καὶ τότε ἑνούμεθα· ἀλλὰ κατα συνανἀκρασιν τοῦ σώματος καὶ ἅιματος.
²⁵ Ἀδελοὶ, ὁ χριστιανὸς, πίστις ἐστίν.
²⁶ A few Testimonies have been suppressed as unsuitable or
irrelevant, viz.:—
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