St. John Damascene on Icons

β€œI 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.”

β€”St. John Damascene

His response, in the ~7th century, on why icons aren’t idolatrous.

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