On Holy Images

Translated by Mary H. Allies

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Contents 70 sections

Apologia Of St John Damascene Against Those Who Decry Holy Images
St Denis the Areopagite. From his Letter to Bishop Titus.
Part II: The Same
The same, from his Sermon to St Meletius, Bishop of Antioch, and on the zeal of his hearers, beginning, ‘Casting his eyes everywhere on this holy flock.’
St Denis, Bishop of Athens, from his letter to St John the Apostle and Evangelist.
Part III: The Same
1st Point.—_What is an Image?_
The Same, ‘On the Names of God.’
St Maximus, Philosopher and Confessor. From his ‘Acts’ and those of Bishop Theodosius.
The same, from his Homily on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy.
2nd Point.—_For what purpose the Image is made._
The Same, on the ‘Ecclesiastical Hierarchy.’
Blessed Anastasius, Archbishop of Theopolis, on the Sabbath, to Simeon, Bishop of Bostris.
St Basil, from his Homily on the Forty Martyrs.
3rd Point.—_How many kinds of Images there are._
St Basil’s Sermon on the Martyr St Barlam, beginning, ‘In the first place the death of the saints.’
The same, on the Thirty Chapters on the Holy Ghost to Amphilochios, 18th Answer.
Fourth Chapter. What an Image is, what it is not; and how each Image is to be set forth.
From the same, from the Thirty Chapters to Amphilochios, on the Holy Ghost.—Chap. xviii.
From the Spiritual History of Theodore, Bishop of Cyrus. From the ‘Life of St Simon Stylites.’
Who first made an Image.
From St Basils Sermon on St Gordion.
The same.
On Adoration. What is Adoration?
The same, on the Martyr St Gordion.
St Athanasius, from the Hundred Chapters addressed to Antiochus, the Prefect, according to Question and Answer.—Chap. xxxviii.
On the kinds of Adoration.
The same, at the end.
St John Chrysostom, on the ‘Third Psalm, on David, and Absalom.’
What we find worshipped in Scripture, and in how many ways we show worship to creatures.
Testimony of the same, from his Sermon on the Forty Martyrs.
St Cyril of Alexandria, from his ‘Address to the Emperor Theodosius.’
St Basil.
The same, from his ‘Treasures.’
St Gregory of Nyssa, from the ‘Structure of Man.’
The same, from his Poem, on the ‘Revelation of Christ being signified through all the Teaching of Moses. On Abraham and Melchisedech.’—Chap. vi.
The same, Fifth Chapter.
St Gregory of Nazianzen, from His Sermon on the ‘Son,’ ii.
The same, from his Sermon at Constantinople on the Godhead of the Son and of the Spirit, and on Abraham.
Eusebius Pamphilius, from the Fifth Book of his Gospel Proofs, on ‘God appeared to Abraham by the Oak of Mambre.’
Leo,Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus. From his book against the Jews, on the Adoration of the Cross, and the Statues of the Saints, and on Relics.
John of Antioch, also called Malala, from his Chronography concerning the ‘Woman with the Issue of Blood, who erected a Monument to Christ.’
From the same.
From the ‘Ecclesiastical History of Socrates,’ Book I. Chap. xviii., on the Emperor Constantine.
Severianus, Bishop of the Gabali, on the Dedication of the Cross.
Stephen Bostrenus, against the Jews.—Chap. iv.
Taken word for word from the Life of St John Chrysostom.
The same.
St Leontius of Naples, in Cyprus, against the Jews—Book v.
The same, from the 3rd Book.
Section 51 — The same.
Section 52 — The same.
Section 53 — The same.
Section 54 — The same.
Saint Athanasius against the Arians.—Book iii.
The same, to Antiochus the Ruler.
St Ambrose of Milan, to the Emperor Gratian concerning the Incarnation of God the Word.
St Cyril of Jerusalem, twelfth Instruction.
St John Chrysostom, on the Machabees.
The same, against Julian the Apostate.—1st Book.
The same, on the Piscina.
Severianus of the Gabali, on the Cross.
Jerome, Priest of Jerusalem, on the Holy Trinity.
Simeon of Mount Thaumastus on Images.
Athanasius, Archbishop of Antioch, to Simeon, Bishop of the Bostri, on the Sabbath.
The same.—3rd Homily.
St Athanasius of Mount Sinai on the New Sabbath, and on St Thomas the Apostle.
From the Life of the Abbot Daniel, on Eulogius the Quarryman.
From the Life of St Mary of Egypt.
St Methodius, Bishop of the Patari (παταρών), on the Resurrection.

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