63) celebrates it; yet it was no more than a copy, since he adds (of Edessa).

See Pagi, tom.ii.

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11.] [Footnote 13: See, in the genuine or supposed works of John Damascenus, two passages on the Virgin and St.Luke, which have not been noticed by Gretser, nor consequently by Beausobre, (Opera Joh.Damascen.tom.i.

p.
618, 631.)] [Footnote 14: "Your scandalous figures stand quite out from the canvass: they are as bad as a group of statues!" It was thus that the ignorance and bigotry of a Greek priest applauded the pictures of Titian, which he had ordered, and refused to accept.] The worship of images had stolen into the church by insensible degrees, and each petty step was pleasing to the superstitious mind, as productive of comfort, and innocent of sin.