no good reason for ascribing any of these works to John ; nor are they, in fact, ascribed to him except by the Car- melites. See Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. ix, 299 ; x, 525, etc. ; Cave, Hist. Litt. i, 281, etc. ; Dupin, Nouv. Biblioth'eque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, iii, 87, ed. Par. 1690 ; Smith, Dictionari/ of Greek and Roman Biography, ii, 596.
John OF Jerusalem (2). A synodical letter of John, who was a patriarch of Jerusalem early in the 6th centun,^ and his suffragan bishops assembled in a coun- cil at Jerusalem A.D. 517 or 518, to John of Constanti- nople [John of Cappadocia], is given in the Concilia (voL v, col. 187, etc., ed. Labbe ; viii, 1067, ed. Mausi).
John OF Jerusalem (3) [or of Damascus, 2]. Three extant pieces relating to the Iconoclastic contro- versy bear the name of John of Jerusalem, but it is doubtful how far they may be ascribed to the same au- thor, hence we add them here simply under a separate heading. They are, 1. 'lo)dvvov tiXajSiaTctrov row 'ItpoaoXvjiiTov fiovaxov AiijyrjaiQ, or Joannis Hieroso- Ij/mitani reverendissimi Monachi Narratio, a very brief ascount of the origin of the Iconoclastic movement, pub- lished by Combefis among the Scriptores post Theopha- nem (Par. 1685, fol.), and reprinted at Venice, A.D. 1729, as part of the series of Byzantine historians ; it is also included in the Bonn edition of that scries. It is also printed in the Bihliotheca Patrum of GaUandius, xiii, 270 : — 2. AiuXoyog (TDjXirivriKoc yivofiivoQ irapa ina- ToJv Kai op^oco^cjv Kai ttoBov K«t ^iiXov t^oiTOJi/ TTjOOf iXiyxov Tuiv ivavTieov Tijg ■KKJTHog Kai tiiq tV SaaKaXiaQ tuiv ayiwv Kai 6pSto56i<jt)V i)fiotv Tvarkpiov, or Disceptatio invectiva qum kabiia est ajidelibus et or- thodoxis, studiumque ac zelum habentibus ad confutandos adversaries fidei atque doctrince sanctorum orthodoxo- rumque patrum nosirorum, first published by Combetis in the Scriptores post Theophanem as the work of an anonymous writer, and contained in the Venetian, but not in the Bonn edition of the Byzantine writers. It is also reprinted by GaUandius {lit suj)i-a), p. 352, and as- cribed to John of Damascus or John of Jerusalem, some MSS. giving one name, and others giving the other. GaUandius considers that he is called Damascus from his birthplace. The author of this invective is to be distinguished from the greatly celebrated John of Da- mascus (q. v.), his contemporary, to whom, perhaps, the transcribers of the manuscripts, in prefixing the name Damascus, intended to ascribe the work: — 3. 'Imavvov l-iovaxov Kai TrpidfivTspov tov AafiaaKiivoi' Xoyot; d-7ToSt(KriKi)g Trepi tluv dyiwi> Kai anrrwv (Ikovojv, TrpuQ vavTUQ XpKTTiavovg Kai irpoQ rhv jiaciXia Kov- aravTivov tuv KafiaXli/ov Kai Trpbg Travrag a'lpiTi- Kovg, or Joannh Damasceni Monachi ac Presbyteri Ora- fio demonstraiiva de sacris ac veneixindis imar/inibus, ad Christianos omnes, adrersusque Imperatorem Constanti- num, Cabalinum. The title is given in other MSS., 'ETTtirroXj) 'lix)a%>vov 'ItpoffoXvfiwv dpxuirixjKoTrov, k. t. X.^Epistola Joannis, or Ilierosolymitani A rchiepiscopi, etc. The work was first printed in t\ie. Auctarinm No- vum of Combefis (Paris, 1648, folio), vol. ii, and was re- printed by GaUandius {ut supra), p. 358, etc. Fabricius is disposed to identify the authors of Nos. 1 and 3, and treats No. 2 as the work of another and unknown writer ; but GaUandius, from internal evidence, endeavors to show that Nos. 2 and 3 are written by one person, but that No. 1 is by a different writer, and this seems to be the preferable opinion. He thinks there is also internal evidence that No. 3 was written in the year 770, and Avas sidjsequent to No. 2. See Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. vii, 682 ; (iallandius, Bibl. Patrum, xiii. Prolegomena, ch. X, p. 15 ; Smith, Diet. Gr. and Rom.. Biog. ii, 596.
John of Jerusalem (4), patriarch of Jerusalem, who flourished probably in the latter half of tlie 10th century, was the author of a life of Joannes Damascenus, Bi'of rov oalov Trarpug I'l^iwv 'Iwavvov tov Aajiaa- Krjvov ffi)yypa(}>eig Trapc'i 'Iwdvvov iraTpidpxov 'lepoao- Xvfiwv {Vita sancti Pat7-is nostri Joannis Damasceni a Joanne Patriarcha Hierosolymituno conscripta). The
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•work is a translation from the Arabic, or at least founded upon an Arabic biography, and was written a consider- able time after the death of John of Damascus (A.D. 756), and after the cessation of the Iconoclastic contest, which may be regarded as having terminated on the death of the emperor Theophilus (A.D. 842). But we have no data for determining how long after these events the author lived. Le ciuicn identifies him with a John, patriarch of Jerusalem, wlio was burnt ali\'e by the Saracens in the latter part of the reign (A.D. '.)()3-9) of Nicephorus Pliocas, upon suspicion that he liad exci- ted that emperor to attack them (Ccdrenus, Compend. p. ()G1, edit. Paris ; ii, 374, ed. Bonn). This life of John of Damascus M'as first published at Rome with the ora- tions of Damascenus (Z>e Saciis Imar/inibug [1553, 8vo]) ; it was reprinted at Basel with all the works of John of Damascus A.D. 1575; in the Acta Sancto- rum (Jlay 6), vol. ii (the Latin version in the bodj' of the work [p. Ill, etc.], and the original in tlie Ap- pendix [p. 723, etc.]) ; and in the edition of the Works of Bamascenus by Le Quien, vol. i (Paris, 1712, folio). The Latin version is given (s. d. 0 INIaii) in the Vitoi Sanctorum of Lippomani, and the Be Probafis Sancto- rum Vitis of Surius. See Le Quien, JoannU Bumasceni Opera, note at the beginning of the }'i/ii S.J. Damasc. ; and Orient Christianus, iii, 466. — Fabricius. y^iW. (lr(vca, ix, C8G, (!S9 ; x, 261 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. ii, 29 ; Smith, Bict. Gr. and Rom. Biog. ii, 598.