For what person with any sense does not understand the difference between an idol and an icon? That the one is darkness, and the other light? That the one is deceptive, the other infallible? That the one belongs to polytheism, but the other is the clearest evidence of the divine economy?
—First Refutation of the Iconoclasts, §7
Full citation: Roth, Catharine P. 1981. On the Holy Icons: St. Theodore the Studite. Popular Patristics Series, Number 6. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. Page 27.
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