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Baradæus, or Zanzalus, was a Syrian monk, had been educated in the doctrines of Severus, and they both rose to fame under the favour of Anastasius. After the death of that emperor he was created bishop of Edessa by the Monophysite bishops who were confined at Constantinople. and his unceasing labours in their cause made him worthy to be looked on as the head of the Monophysite sect. 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, the Monophysite faith appears to have been first firmly established among the Arab tribes. Hareth, the king of the western