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Better a fornicator than an iconoclast, according to St John Damascene

4 April 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

St John of Damascus

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It would be better for you to leave no brothel in this town unentered than to refuse to venerate our Lord and God Jesus Christ together with his own mother.

— St John of Damascus (transl. Andrew Louth) /On the Divine Images/ Treatise

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