War with the Scyths part 18
Tzachas opened the conversation, addressing the other by name, and said, “I must tell you that I am the young man who many years...
The Book of Ruth 2
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her:—-“My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? And now...
Maese Pfirez the Organist part 3
`But why need I try to tell you about what you are going to hear lo-night? It is enough for you to see that...
The Pious Lady and the Gray Friar part 2
After she had earnestly begged him to choose for her daughter such a husband as he knew a woman that loved God and her...
War with the Scyths part 19
Now the Emperor had found out from many things that this Duke John was exceedingly brave, skilled in warfare and never disposed to disregard...
John of Damascus part 15
So also in “De bello Jud.”, 1. l, c. xxxiii (xxi), 2, he says: “It is unlawful to have in thetemple images or pictures...
John of Damascus part 16
At Palmyra is a Jewish funeral chamber painted throughout with winged female figures holding up round portraits, above is a picture, quite in the...
John of Damascus part 1
John of Damascus: In Defense of Icons, c. 730
The Iconoclastic controversy lasted from 726, when Emperor Leo III (717-741) began an attack on the...
John of Damascus part 17
The old pagan sarcophagi had been carved with figures of gods, garlands of flowers, and symbolic ornament; pagan cemeteries, rooms, and temples had been...
John of Damascus part 2
Holy Scripture clothes in figure God and the angels, and the same holy man (Blessed Denis) explains why. When sensible things sufficiently render what...
