John of Damascus part 6
Often, doubtless, when we have not the Lord’s passion in mind and see the image of Christ’s crucifixion, His saving passion is brought back...
John of Damascus part 5
From The Fount of Wisdom
But since some find fault with us for worshipping and honouring the image of our Saviour and that of our...
John of Damascus part 4
As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: “See” (He says), “that thou make all things according to the...
John of Damascus part 3
Either, therefore, take away images altogether and be out of harmony with God ,who made these regulations, or receive them with the language and...
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...
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...
Rinconete and Cortadillo part 20
“Memorandum of common business,” such as “blacking the face with a bottle of ink”—“nailing a horn over the doors of cuckolds”— “pretenses at assassination”—“false...
Rinconete and Cortadillo part 19
“Well, with this promise,” said the cavalier, “take this chain for the twenty ducats owing, and forty on account of the business you have...
Rinconete and Cortadillo part 18
“Ah! I watched for him last night at the very door of his house,” rejoined the bravo, “and when he came I looked him...
Rinconete and Cortadillo part 17
She had hardly spoken these words, when a boy entered, bearing a large basket covered with a sheet. The good people seemed all very...
