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Bardesanes

Bardesanes (bärdusā'nēz) [key], 154?222?, Christian philosopher and poet of Syria, missionary among the Armenians. Conflicting traditions report him both as defender of the faith against various Gnostic sects and as a heretic and founder of Bardesanism.

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