St John Damascene on Holy Images (???? ???? ???????????? ??? ????? ???????). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (????????)

INDEX

Saint John of Damascus

Abraham and sons of Emmor, [pg 9]_; image of God, [pg 123]_. Adam and Eve addressing Our Lady, [pg 183]_.

Ambrose of Milan, St, on Incarnation, [pg 136]_.

Amphilochius, addressed by St Basil, [pg 34]_.

Angarus, King of Edessa, [pg 33]_.

Angelic nature not taken by God, [pg 102]_.

Anne, St, her name, [pg 156]_.

Ark of God, the true, [pg 168]_, [pg 188]_; at rest, [pg 195]_.

Assumption of Our Lady, [pg 202]_, [pg 207]_, [pg 209]_, [pg 210]_.

Athanasius, Archbishop of Antioch, [pg 141]_.

Athanasius, St, his testimony, [pg 120]_.

Augustine, St, de Civitate Dei, [pg 57]_.

Babylon, three children in, [pg 132]_.

Baltasar, impiety of, [pg 110]_.

Basil, St, on Tradition, [pg 28]_; on St Gordion, [pg 37]_; on Forty Martyrs, [pg 117]_.

Berenice of Paneada, [pg 124]_.

Body of Christ in Holy Eucharist, [pg 102]_.

Brazen Serpent, image of the Cross, [pg 50]_.

Burial of Our Lady, [pg 190]_, [pg 191]_, [pg 208]_.

Burning bush, image of Our Lady, [pg 79]_.

Cherubim, image of, [pg 14]_.

Chrysostom, St John, his testimony, [pg 83]_, [pg 118]_, [pg 121]_; on the Machabees, [pg 137]_; to Julian the Apostate, [pg 138]_.

Church assailed by enemies, [pg 1]_.

[pg 214]

Constantine, zeal for images, [pg 126]_.

Cross, veneration of, [pg 78]_, [pg 130]_, [pg 134]_.

Cyril of Alexandria, St, [pg 121]_.

Cyril of Jerusalem, [pg 137]_; to Julian the Apostate, [pg 138]_.

Daniel and David, worship of, [pg 13]_.

Denis the Areopagite, [pg 10]_; on images, [pg 31]_, [pg 96]_.

Denis, St, of Athens, [pg 116]_.

Deuteronomy, testimony of, [pg 6]_, [pg 63]_.

Divine things clothed in form, [pg 99]_.

Egyptians, their burial, [pg 29]_.

Elias taken to heaven, [pg 166]_.

Eliseus, a wonder-worker, [pg 45]_.

Epiphanius, St, on images, [pg 29]_, [pg 77]_.

Eupraxia, St, [pg 51]_.

Ezechiel, his vision, [pg 46]_, [pg 128]_, [pg 162]_.

Forty martyrs, [pg 38]_, [pg 40]_, [pg 117]_.

Francis de Sales, St, on the Cross, [pg 47]_.

Gabriel, St, sent to Mary, [pg 157]_.

Godhead, not to be represented, [pg 5]_, [pg 8]_, [pg 9]_, [pg 14]_, [pg 15]_, [pg 62]_, [pg 67]_, [pg 98]_. Gregory of Nazianzen, St, [pg 122]_.

Gregory of Nyssa, St, [pg 41]_.

Holy places, [pg 109]_; things, [pg 110]_.

Homer, on the gods, [pg 193]_.

Idolatry of Israelites, [pg 80]_.

Idol worship of heathens, [pg 77]_.

Images, dishonour shown to, [pg 68]_, [pg 85]_; worship of, [pg 74]_, [pg 75]_, [pg 89]_; definition of, [pg 92]_; kinds, [pg 93]_, [pg 94]_, [pg 95]_, [pg 97]_, [pg 106]_, [pg 133]_; of saints, a fruitful worship, [pg 112]_.

Invisible things through visible, [pg 11]_.

Isaias, his vision of God, [pg 100]_; virgin foretold by, [pg 162]_.

Jacob, his worship, [pg 9]_, [pg 13]_, [pg 131]_; typical, [pg 27]_; receiving Joseph’s cloak, [pg 132]_; ladder of, [pg 161]_.

[pg 215]

Jews, their proneness to idolatry, [pg 8]_.

Jezabel, punishment of, [pg 70]_.

Joachim, St, [pg 154]_.

Jordan, stones of, [pg 20]_, [pg 97]_.

Joseph, worshipped by brothers, [pg 14]_.

Josue, worshipped an angel, [pg 101]_.

King’s image, value of, [pg 136]_; kings not legislators in the Church, [pg 52]_, [pg 69]_, [pg 76]_.

Latreia, worship of, [pg 7]_; given to God alone, [pg 64]_, [pg 104]_, [pg 107]_.

Law, image of the future, [pg 82]_, [pg 140]_; observances of, [pg 18]_; images of, [pg 46]_, [pg 49]_, [pg 81]_, [pg 88]_; superseded by grace, [pg 73]_.

Leo of Neapolis, on the Cross, [pg 43]_.

Matter not despicable, [pg 17]_, [pg 71]_, [pg 72]_; consecrated, [pg 127]_.

Mary of Egypt, St, praying to Our Lady, [pg 51]_, [pg 143]_, [pg 145]_.

Maximus, St, his testimony, [pg 84]_.

Methodius, St, on images, [pg 145]_.

Moses, testimony of, [pg 53]_, [pg 60]_, [pg 65]_; worships Jethor, [pg 134]_.

Mother of God, [pg 12]_; images of, [pg 97]_; worship of, [pg 54]_, [pg 91]_; death of, [pg 164]_, [pg 186]_; her Assumption, [pg 166]_, [pg 167]_, [pg 173]_, [pg 176]_; the city of God, [pg 148]_; her praises, [pg 150]_; her birth, [pg 150]_; her presentation, [pg 156]_; her grace, [pg 158]_; her virginity, [pg 159]_, [pg 173]_; a spiritual Eden, [pg 160]_; her intercession, what, [pg 169]_; the new Eden, [pg 174]_; heaven, [pg 175]_; her death, painless, [pg 177]_; eye-witnesses of, [pg 181]_; saint of saints, [pg 178]_; her right to worship of all, [pg 192]_; heavenly bridals of, [pg 203]_; fountain of life, [pg 206]_.

Our Lord’s human birth, [pg 194]_.

Persecutors of saints punished, [pg 70]_.

Peter, St, chief of apostles, [pg 26]_.

Pharao worshipped by Jacob, [pg 9]_.

Saints, why honoured, [pg 21]_, [pg 23]_, [pg 24]_; their shadow, [pg 113]_; our worship of, [pg 108]_.

[pg 216]

Scripture, true interpretation of, [pg 66]_.

Severianus, on the Cross, [pg 139]_.

Simon Stylites, St, venerated in Rome, [pg 119]_.

Sion, what, [pg 179]_

Solomon and the temple, [pg 22]_, [pg 45]_, [pg 129]_.

Spiritual conceptions through corporeal things, [pg 90]_.

Tomb of Our Lady, [pg 196]_, [pg 197]_, [pg 205]_, [pg 210]_; fairer than Eden, [pg 204]_.

Tradition, ancient, [pg 114]_; unwritten, [pg 75]_.

Types, honourable, [pg 142]_.

Worship, false, [pg 56]_, [pg 57]_, [pg 58]_; kinds of, [pg 104]_, [pg 105]_, [pg 106]_, [pg 108]_, [pg 111]_.

[1]	?e?p?t??, not easily rendered in English.

[2]	?a? t??t?? ?spe? ?pp?? e????????, t?? ?fet???a? pa????sa.

[3]	?pe???apt??, i.e., not in place.

[4]	???a ?? ?a? ?p? t? ????? t?? ??d??.

[5]	??? ???a? pa?????? ?a? ?e?t????.

[6]	A reference to the question treated by St Thomas after St John Damascene: utrum angelus sit in loco.

[7]	d?sa? t?? ?s?????.

[8]	t?? ????fa?a? a???t?ta t?? ?p?st????.

[9]	ta ?e?a ?st???a—the Mass.

[10]

tett??.

[11]	t? t?? ?????? p??? ?e??? ??p??se????ta ???ta ????.

[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]	as????? ?st?? ? p???t??? e?p?a??a; ? d? ?????s?ast??? ?at?stas??, p?????? ?a? d?das?a???. ??st???? ?f?d?? ?st?? a?t?.

[17]	????sat? ?a?t?? t?? ???e??? st?ate?at?? ? ep??e??? as??e??, ?a? t?te t?? ?a?t?? as???a ?a? ??????. ?p???s?? t?? ??o????da ?a? t? d?ad?a ?a? t?te t?? ?at? t?? t??????? ???ste?s??t??, ?a? as????sa?t?? t?? pa??? s?a? pe??a??e?t?.

[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 ? (?), where the translation begins.

[21]	t?e?? ?p?stase??.

[22]	f?se? ?a? ????e?a.

[23]

?e??????.

[24]

?e?t?t? ??? ?a?’ ?p?stas?? ???ta?, ?a? d?? f?se?? ?? t? eta?aa????? ?f’ ??? s?at? t?? ???st??, ???e?a? ?a?’ ?p?stas?? e?s?? ?d?asp?st??, ?a? t?? d?? f?se?? et???e?, t?? s?at??, s?at????, t?? ?e?t?t??, p?e?at????· ????? d? ?f??? ?at’ ?f?· ?? ?a?’ ?p?stas?? ta?t???e???· ?f?st?e?a ??? p??t??, ?a? t?te ????e?a· ???? ?ata s??a????as?? t?? s?at?? ?a? ??at??.

[25]	?de?f??, ? ???st?a???, p?st?? ?st??.

[26]

A few Testimonies have been suppressed as unsuitable or irrelevant, viz.:—

St Basil on St Barlaam (in order) 2.
St Gregory of Nyssa. On Isaac and Abraham (5) Repetition.
Severianus on the Cross (7) Repetition.
From Life of St Chrysostom (8) Repetition.
Eusebius on the Woman with an Issue of Blood (22).
Eusebius on Constantine (23).
St Gregory Nazianzen, from his Discourse to Julian the Apostle (2 lines) (24).
St Chrysostom, Commentary on Job (25).
St Chrysostom on Constantine, four quotations (26).
Theodoret of Syrus on Ezechiel (27).
From the Acts of St Placid (28).
Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret (35).
St Athanasius of Mount Sinai (36).
Arcadius, Abp. of Cyprus, on Simeon the Wonderworker (37).
St Chrysostom, Homily (38).
Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History: six short quotations (39).
St Chrysostom on St Flavian and Homily (40).
St Basil on Forty Martyrs, Repetition (41).
St Gregory Nazianzen, ex Carminibus (42).
St Chrysostom, Commentary on St Paul (43).
From the Sixth General Council (44).
St Clement, Stromata (45).
St Theodore, Bishop of Pentapolis (46).
St Basil to St Flavian (51).
St Gregory Nazianzen on Baptism (52).
St Isidore the Deacon, Chronography (57).
From the Fifth General Council (62).
Theodore, Ecclesiastical History (63).
Abbot Maximus. Repetition (64).
St Sophronius, Acts of SS. Cyrus and John (65).
From the Life of St Eupraxia (69).
On the Fifth General Council (70).

[27]	?e?f??e? p??p?t???.

[28]	???? ?a? ta ??a??ata t?? ????? ?p’ ?????s?a?? ?e?e?a e?? p??s????s?? t?? p?st??, d????s? t?? ???? t?? s?at??.

[29]	ta ??? t?? ???st?a??? p?st?? ?st?, ?a? ? ??e?d?? ??? ?e?? ??e??e? ta? d???e??.

[30]

?e?p?t??.

[31]

?e???.

[32]	?pe?????pt??.

[33]	??????e te ?a? ???ase.

[34]	?pe????pt?? ?at???sa?.

[35]	??t?? ??? t? ?p??s??pt?? ??e??pe?t??.

[36]	… t? pa?a??? ta?t? ?a? ?e??t?t?.

[37]	?? ??? ?e? ???? ?? t? ?ast?? s?? s????sa?t? ?????pe?a f?s?? t?? ?????f?a? ??t??, t?? ?a?t?? ?pa???? ?? t?? s?? ????? a??t?? p??s??a?e?, ?pt????? p?? ?a? ??t?p????e??? ?p? t?? ?e??? p????, etc.

[38]

??t? ?a? ?e?? ?? ?e???? t?? ?p?? t? ???? t? as???d? p??s????te?, ?a? ?e???a??ta ????? p??? t??? ????a? t?? ??????? ?p?????te?, ?a? t?? p???? t? ?? ????? ??a s?d??? p??st???a?te?, ? ?? ?????? ????? ??????a?te?, t?? ???t???? d?????a?, ??d??? t??a sp?????a ?a? t???a ????? t??? f????????? ??? ?a? f??a?????s? ????te?, ????? ?a? a???? ?p?de???e??e?.

[39]

?e?p?t??.

[40]	??t?? a?a??a s?, paa????ste. ??? ???, e? ??e ? ????? ? p??se???e?ta? t??t? p?s???, ? p??tte?? ?pe???pta?.

[41]	?e?s? ?e?a?? ?a? ?????t???. Obscure when applied to our Lord.

[42]	? ?a???? t?? t??? ?f?ase.

[43]	?a? ?? ?de?? ?d??ta? ?a? d????a t??s ???as?? ?????e?a.

[44]	yevv? y?? p?? ?? s??d?as?? t? ?s?at??; ?a? t??a t??p?? ????seta?.

[45]	The supposed answer of the tomb.

[46]	An unauthentic paragraph omitted.

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