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John of damascus three treatises on the divine images
John of damascus three treatises on the divine images




john of damascus three treatises on the divine images

Of course, the wandering Israelites, those people of fragile faith - as Exodus tells it - do not have patience for Moses’ long, often months-long retreats speaking with God. There, the Ten Commandments are etched in stone. As the Israelites are traveling through the desert following their exodus from Egypt, Moses converses with God on Mt.

john of damascus three treatises on the divine images

Most of the readers of this blog are intimately familiar with this prohibition from the Hebrew Bible. “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” - The Second Commandment, Exodus 20:4






John of damascus three treatises on the divine images