Let us fear God and not arouse His jealousy. Some scholars believe that Luke was an enlightened Greek physician who lived in the Greek city of Antioch in Ancient Syria. Paul, an evangelist (the author of the Gospel that bears his name and the Acts of the Apostles) and a physician. ![]() You shall not worship them or serve them for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. St Luke, (Latin name ‘Lucanus’) the glorious, holy, Apostle and Evangelist is numbered among the Seventy Apostles, was native of Antioch, Syria and a disciple of apostles (Col. Luke is known as a fellow worker with St. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. His gospel stood out for its detail in the narration of Christ’s childhood. Though there is no evidence, writings started to appear in the 8th century referring to his icons of the Virgin and Child. The worship of icons is considered contrary to God’s will because it is a direct violation of the second commandment of the Decalogue, which says: According to Eastern Church tradition, Saint Luke is considered the first iconographer. BlessedMart offers for sale Christian icons in old Byzantine, Greek, Russian and Catholic. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him. Maybe he tried to paint portraits, but not icons, the meaning of today, when people worship them and venerate them. Hand-painted Orthodox icon of Apostle Luke the Iconographer. Luke the Evangelist ( Latin: Lucas Ancient Greek:, Louks Hebrew:, Lqs Imperial Aramaic: /, Lq’ Ge'ez: ) is one of the Four Evangelists the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. Nowhere is mentioned in the Bible that he had painted the first icon. Evangelist Luke wrote in the first century there are two books written by him in the Bible: Gospel of Luke and Acts. The historical documents which could form the basis for this claim are absent. Theotokos, painted by Luke the Evangelist, to Pulcheria. ![]() Luke the Evangelist is the first iconographer is based on the testimony of Theodor Studite (6th century), which says that the Empress Eudoxia had sent a portrait of the Virgin Mary, Why some people consider Orthodox as pagans, because they worship icons, since the first icon was painted by Luke the Evangelist in the 5th century, or there would be a contradiction here, because I do not think God would allow that same person, Luke, to guide a people to faith, meaning to the Word of God, but also to paganism (icons)? Luke, we are told, who wrote the first icon of the Holy Theotokos, bearing in her arms the Christ Child, acceding to the pious desire of the early Christians. The question I will answer in this article is about the icons and the veneration of icons: Our Orthodox Church tradition speaks of St.
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