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Chapter XXIX.
Tatian2430
who, while
teaching oratory, won not a little glory in the rhetorical art, was a
follower of Justin Martyr and was distinguished so long as he did not
leave his master’s side. But afterwards, inflated2431
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elated T 25 Her. | by a swelling of eloquence, he founded a
new heresy which is called that of the Encratites, the heresy which
Severus afterwards augmented in such wise that heretics of this party
are called Severians to the present day. Tatian wrote besides
innumerable volumes, one of which, a most successful book Against
the nations, is extant, and this is considered the most significant
of all his works. He flourished in the reign of Marcus Antoninus Verus
and Lucius Aurelius Commodus.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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