![]() ![]() John Damascene, De Imagine, Part I, 15-16, from Internet Medieival Sourcebook. I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake, and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter." (St. 3.38) I make an image of the God whom I see. Now, however, when God is seen clothed in flesh, and conversing with men, (Bar. John Damascene, last of the Greek Fathers and a staunch defender of images, had written in De imagine ("In Defense of Images") " Of old, God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed was never depicted. This decree of Nicea II was promulgated for the entire church, both Greek and Latin speaking, and was a response to the strongly held beliefs of the iconoclasts, who wished to suppress the use of images, which had convulsed the Byzantine Empire and the eastern churches for almost 100 years. As the second Council of Nicea declared in 787 " Following the divinely inspired teaching of our holy Fathers and the tradition of the Catholic Church (for we know that this tradition comes from the Holy Spirit who dwells in her) we rightly define with full certainty and correctness that, like the figure of the precious and life-giving cross, venerable and holy images of our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ, our inviolate Lady, the holy Mother of God, and the venerated angels, all the saints and the just, whether painted or made of mosaic or another suitable material, are to be exhibited in the holy churches of God, on sacred vessels and vestments, walls and panels, in houses and on streets." ![]() Since God has assumed human nature and form the Biblical prohibition against making images of God ceases to apply. Why? The answer lies in the Christian belief in the reality of the Incarnation. of the books in the Echternach Gospels depict the symbols of the Evangelists. Uniquely among the monotheistic religions Christianity permits the use of images of God. It is significant that this early Hiberno-Saxon manuscript should have been. Nicolas Antoine Taunay, Saint Matthew and the Angel Versailles, Chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon Johannes Wierix after Maarten de Vos, Saint Matthew Writingįrom Thesaurus Novi Testamenti elegantissimis iconibus expressus continens historias atque miracula do ni nostri Iesu Christi Papyrus was a writing material derived from a reed plant and was in use as early as the third millennium BC until well into the first millennium AD. These manuscripts are normally divided into four basic groups: papyri, uncials, minuscules, and lectionaries. Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Saint Matthew and the Angelįrom the Church of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois There are today over 5,700 extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. ![]() Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy, Saint Matthewįrom Bible historiale by Guyart des Moulinsįollower of Jean Fouquet, Saint Matthew Writing ![]()
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