On Ps. 113B (115), 16
“…if we make images of pious men it is not so that we might adore them as gods
but that when we see them we might be prompted to imitate them; and if we make
images of Christ, it is so that our minds might wing aloft in yearning for Him.”
Polished Comments (Ante 429 AD):
1, 2
“Although the intention of those who worship idols, of discerning perhaps who is
the maker of the universe, is corrupt and false, nevertheless, an innate and
necessary law is operative therein and spontaneous knowledge does stir up the
need to conceive of something more excellent and incomparably better than
ourselves, which is God.”
Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets (Ante 429 AD):
Joel, section 32
“The living water of holy Baptism is given to us as if in rain, and the Bread of Life
as if in wheat, and the Blood as if in wine. In addition to this there is also the use of
oil, reckoned as perfecting those who have been justified in Christ through holy
baptism.”
Commentary on Matthew (Post 428 AD):
On 26, 27
“He states demonstratively: ‘This is My Body,’ and ‘This is My Blood,’ lest you
might suppose the things that are seen are a figure. Rather, by some secret of the
all-powerful God the things seen are transformed into the Body and Blood of
Christ, truly offered in a sacrifice in which we, as participants, receive the life-
giving and sanctifying power of Christ.”
The Twelve Anathemas (430 AD):
1 & 2
“If anyone does not confess that the Emmanuel is in truth God, and that the Holy
Virgin is Mother of God, because she bore according to the flesh of the Word of
God when He became flesh: let him be anathema;”
“If anyone does not confess that the Word of God the Father is united
hypostatically to the flesh, and that Christ with His own flesh is one, that is to say,
the same one is God and Man at the same time: let him be anathema.”
Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten (Post 431 AD):
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