Јован Јерусалимски или Јован Дамаскин
John Damascene Or Jerusalem Monk John

Summary/Abstract: The treatise Against Constantinum Caballinum is an important iconophile source written between the years AD 775 and 787. The authorship has not been established yet. In the introduction to the edition in Patrologia Graeca (PG 305–308) F. Lequien noticed that this work was wrongly attributed to John Damascene in manuscripts Reg. 1829, Bodl. 274 and Caesar. 144 . This work denies the authorship of John Damascene on following remarks: 1.Frequent formulas in sermon Adversus Constantinum Caballinum have not been found in Three Apologetic Treatises Against those Decrying the Holy Images 2. John Damascene would not repeat himself with this short treatise. The assumption of the author's Constantinople origin based on his mentioning of Church of St. Sophia and patriarch German is disputable as well. All the details concerning anecdote that the infant Constantine defecated into the baptismal fountain were well-known in iconodule circles along the Empire. Three Apologetic Treatises Against those Decrying the Holy Images were model for Against Constantinum Caballinum. By Manuscripts Reg. 2428 and Reg. 2951, the treatise is attributed to Jerusalem archibiscop John. The hypothesis that it was Jerusalem monk John, the representative of three eastern patriarchs on The Seventh Ecumenical Council, who wrote the sermon, was confirmed by linguistic comparison of Adversus Constantinum Caballinum and the speech Jerusalem monk John held in front of the Council 787AD. Hendiadyoin as a figure of speech was used in both works in exactly the same words. This stylistic device is not common to Iconophile literature.

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