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In the same reign, as heresies were abounding in the region between
the rivers, a certain Bardesanes, a most able man and a most skillful
disputant in the Syriac tongue, having composed dialogues against
Marcion's followers and against certain others who were authors of
various opinions, committed them to writing in his own language,
together with many other works. His pupils, of whom he had very many
, translated these productions from the Syriac into Greek. Among
them there is also his most able dialogue On Fate, addressed to
Antoninus, and other works which they say he wrote on occasion of the
persecution which arose at that time. He indeed was at first a
follower of Valentinus, but afterward, having rejected his teaching
and having refuted most of his fictions, he fancied that he had come
over to the more correct opinion. Nevertheless he did not entirely
wash off the filth of the old heresy. About this time also Soter,
bishop of the church of Rome, departed this life.
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