Augustin in defence of holy divine worship against cult of the saints,🧵
“Let our religion not consist in the cult of the dead because, if they lived godly lives, they are not to be thought of as seeking such honors, but they wish us to worship the one by whose enlightenment,
“Let our religion not consist in the cult of the dead because, if they lived godly lives, they are not to be thought of as seeking such honors, but they wish us to worship the one by whose enlightenment,
they rejoice to think, we are made partners in their merits. So they are to be honored as examples to imitate, not worshiped as objects of a religious cult.“
On True Religion, chap. 55
On True Religion, chap. 55
"So then, what the highest angel worships is to be worshiped also by the lowest human being, because it was by not worshiping this that the very nature ofman fell to the lowest place. For there is not one source of wisdom for an angel, another for a human being, one source
of truth for the former, another for a human being, but for both one unchanging Wisdom and Truth. What was under taken, you see, by an arrangement in time for our salvation—that the power of God and the Wisdom of God, unchanging and consubstantial and co-eternal with the
Father, should himself deign to take our human nature—was done to teach us thereby that humanity was to worship what is to be worshiped by every intellectual and rational creature. Let us believe that this is also what the very best angels wish, as also the most excellent minis-
terial agents of God, that together with them we should worship the one God (...) And so it is very properly written that a man was told by an angel to adore not him but the one Lord, under whom he too was his fellow slave." chapter 55-56
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