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St. John of Damascus (ca. 675–749) is generally regarded as the last great figure of Greek Patrology. Outstandingly important for his support of images in the Iconoclastic Controversy, this priest-monk of St. Sabbas near Jerusalem is known also for his treatment of Christian morality and asceticism (the Sacred Parallels), for a small but precious group of powerful sermons, and even for verse...

without time, without change, and without separation. He is also called ‘Son’ and ‘Figure of the substance of the Father’9 because He is perfect and distinctly subsistent and in all things like the Father except in the Father’s being unbegotten. And He is called ‘Only-begotten’ because He alone was begotten alone of the only Father. For neither is there any other begetting like that of the Son of God, nor is there any other Son of God. Thus, although the Holy Ghost does proceed from the Father, this
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