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Jacobus Baradæus, or Zanzalus, was a Syrian monk, had been educated in the doctrines of Severus,[1] and they both rose to fame under the favour of Anastasius.[2] After the death of that emperor he was created bishop of Edessa by the Monophysite bishops who were confined at Constantinople.[3] and his unceasing labours in their cause made him worthy to be looked on as the head of the Monophysite sect.[4] By Baradæus and his partisans, who were spread over every part of the Syrian frontiers, and by the numerous bishops and presbyters whom he created there,[5] the Monophysite faith appears to have been first firmly established among the Arab tribes.[6] Hareth, the king of the western
- ↑ Renaudot, Hist. Patr. Al. p. 133.
- ↑ Asseman, Bibl. Orient, tom. iii. p. 384.
- ↑ Barhebræus, in Asseman. tom. ii. p. 327.
- ↑ In an Arabic MS. cited by Asseman. tom. ii. p. 64, Baradæus is termed primate of the Jacobites, Syrians, Copts, and Æthiopians—مار يعقوب البرادعي راس اساققة اليعاقبة السريان والوبط والحبشر٭
- ↑ He made above a hundred thousand bishops, priests, and deacons, if we believe Barhebræus. Assem. tom. ii. p. 332.
- ↑ Barhebræus, Hist. Dynast, p. 93.
