JOHN THE BAPTIST

in New Testa; ment s. of Zacharias and Elisabeth, anc and baptized in wilderne ; imprisonec and slain by order of Herod, whom J epulked for marrying his bro. Philip’; e. JOHN, ST., OF DAMASCUS (4, c 764), Gk, Father and sents: en tered Palestinian monastery; strong 0 ponant of iconoclasm; wrote works which, though not in themselves remarkable, sum up Gk. theology; wrote original of hymn, The Day of Resurrection; his Christ ology tended towards Apollinarianism,