John Damascene
8th century · AD 749 · Eastern & Byzantine · 211 passages
The last of the Greek fathers; gathered earlier teaching into an orderly summary of the faith and defended sacred images.
In his own words on 2 Peter
- 2 Peter 3:16
The enemy of our souls has made some people turn away from the straight road and divided them by strange teachings and taught them to interpret certain sayings of the Scriptures falsely. But the truth is one, and it is that which was preached by the glorious apostles and inspired Fathers and which shines in the universal church.
BARLAAM AND IOASAPH 16.134
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.