John of Damascus: source notes

Works: Exact Exposition IV. Edition/translation: NPNF² vol. 9, as on New Advent.

S1: Exact Exposition IV.9

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm
Text: “We confess one baptism for the remission of sins and for life eternal. For baptism declares the Lord’s death. We are indeed buried with the Lord through baptism”.
Context: Baptism is the place of remission.
Bears on: Q4, Q1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm
Text: “Moreover, faith is twofold. For faith comes by hearing. … The same is perfected by all the things enjoined by Christ, believing in work, cultivating piety, and doing the commands of Him Who restored us.” Also: “by baptism we cut off all the covering which we have worn since birth, that is to say, sin”.
Context: Faith is perfected by works.
Bears on: Q5, Q4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm
Text: “so the bread of the table and the wine and water are supernaturally changed by the invocation and presence of the Holy Spirit into the body and blood of Christ, and are not two but one and the same.” And: “if some persons called the bread and the wine antitypes … as did the divinely inspired Basil, they said so not after the consecration but before”.
Context: The final patristic synthesis. Change by the epiclesis; “the manner of this cannot be searched out”.
Bears on: E1, E3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm
Text: Heading: “Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains.” “The Master Christ made the remains of the saints to be fountains of salvation to us, pouring forth manifold blessings”.
Context: The patristic synthesis. Relics are a channel of God’s power.
Bears on: R1, R3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm
Text: “who can make an imitation of the invisible, incorporeal, uncircumscribed, formless God? Therefore to give form to the Deity is the height of folly and impiety. And hence it is that in the Old Testament the use of images was not common. But after God … became in truth man … since all these things actually took place and were seen by men”. He also quotes Basil: “the honour given to the image passes over to the prototype”, and cites the cherubim of Exod 25:18.
Context: The Incarnation argument: the invisible God may not be depicted, but the incarnate Christ may. Written during the first iconoclast period (c. 730s).
Bears on: I1, I2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33041.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “And we do not speak of the Spirit as from the Son : but yet we call Him the Spirit of the Son.”
Context: Summary of the Greek tradition.
Bears on: T2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33041.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “through the Son, and participated in by all creation, through Himself creating, and investing with essence and sanctifying, and maintaining the universe: having subsistence, existing in its own proper and peculiar subsistence, inseparable and indivisible from Father and Son, and possessing all the qualities that the Father and Son possess, save that of not being begotten or born. …”
Context:
Bears on: T2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33042.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “For the phrase after His image clearly refers to the side of his nature which consists of mind and free will, whereas after His likeness means likeness in virtue so far as that is possible.”
Context: Image: mind and free will; likeness: virtue.
Bears on: T19.2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33043.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “But the flesh of the Lord received the riches of the divine energies through the purest union with the Word, that is to say, the union in subsistence, without entailing the loss of any of its natural attributes.”
Context: The deification of the Lord’s flesh, without change of its nature.
Bears on: F04.4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33043.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “So far as He is body He is diminished and contracted into narrow limits, but inasmuch as He is God He is uncircumscribed, His flesh not being coextensive with His uncircumscribed divinity.”
Context: How the two natures interpenetrate without confusion.
Bears on: F04.4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33043.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Nor, again, do we predicate of His flesh or of His humanity the properties of divinity: for we do not say that His flesh or His humanity is uncreated.”
Context: The rules for speaking of the two natures.
Bears on: F04.4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33043.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “descended into Hades, in order that, just as the Sun of Righteousness Malachi 4:2 rose for those upon the earth, so likewise He might bring light to those who sit under the earth in darkness and shadow of death Isaiah 9:2: in order that just as He brought the message of peace to those upon the earth, and of release to the prisoners, and of sight to the blind , and became to those who believed the Author of everlastin …”
Context: John of Damascus on the descent into Hades.
Bears on: F10.4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33043.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “So then, after the assent of the Holy Virgin, the Holy Spirit descended on her, according to the word of the Lord which the angel spoke, purifying her , and granting her power to receive the divinity of the Word, and likewise power to bring forth.”
Context: John of Damascus on the Annunciation.
Bears on: S18.4
Status: verified (English)