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The Case for Icon Veneration - An Almost Comprehensive Response to Gavin Ortlund

Intellectual Catholicism

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The Reversal of Eucsibius' Position on Images

Eucsibius wrote that no likeness should be made either of what is in heaven or what is in the earth beneath. He was responding to constansia who had asked for an image of jesus and so he's saying these this isn't supposed to be in churches and it's not supposed to be even privately owned because of the second commandment. Eucebias also talks about then an image that a woman privately owned that he took away as part of his reversal of position against images. Gavin: When eucebias uses divine love here he actually seems to have changed his mind about the fact that images even privately owned can be used and

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