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An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

NPNF2 Vol. 9 (Salmond)
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John of Damascus · A.D. 676–749 A.D. 743
“The bread and the wine are not merely figures of the body and blood of Christ (God forbid!) but the deified body of the Lord itself: for the Lord has said, "This is My body," not, this is a figure of My body: and "My blood," not, a figure of My blood.”
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV, ch. 13 Source
John of Damascus · A.D. 676–749 A.D. 743
“To the saints honour must be paid as friends of Christ, as sons and heirs of God.”
Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV, ch. 15 Source
John of Damascus · A.D. 676–749 A.D. 743
“God is One, that is to say, one essence; and that He is known, and has His being in three subsistences, in Father, I say, and Son and Holy Spirit; and that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one in all respects.”
Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book I, ch. 8 Source