Part One: Chapter Six: Meanings of the Book
The Book is the word of God and therefore it is inexhaustible and we will never finish understanding it: (Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away). […]
The Book is the word of God and therefore it is inexhaustible and we will never finish understanding it: (Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away). […]
Man cannot know the divine truth, that is, he cannot know the essence of God, but only knows the uncreated actions of God, that is, His effects. However, the Church tradition and the Holy Bible speak of specific appearances of God, the most important of which was His appearance to Abraham in the form of three angels. The Church Fathers say that this event is the first appearance of the Holy Trinity in the Old Testament.
The Orthodox Church commemorates the Russian Saint Andrei Rublev, the icon painter, or icon writer, as some like to say, on the Fourth.
In the Orthodox icon there are multiple symbols. We will try to understand the most important icon symbols found in our church, especially the ones most used in