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Arivurdis
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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(children of the sun) were a sect found in Asia, and particularly in Armenia and the adjacent countries, where they had maintained themselves from the olden times; having sprung from a mixture of Zoroastrianism with a few elements of Christianity. They derived their name from their worship of the sun. ''Between 833 and 854 this sect took a new form and a new impulse from a person named Sembat, who settled at Thondrac, whence his sect received. the name of Thondracians (q.v.).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Arivurdis'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/arivurdis.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Arivurdis'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/arivurdis.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
