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| Bardesanes the heresiarch.
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Chapter
XXXIII.
Bardesanes2435
| 2435 Flourished about 172. | of Mesopotamia
is reckoned among the distinguished men. He was at first a follower of
Valentinus and afterwards his opponent and himself founded a new
heresy. He has the reputation among the Syrians of having been a
brilliant genius and vehement in argument. He wrote a multitude of
works against almost all heresies which had come into existence in his
time. Among these a most remarkable and strong work is the one which he
addressed to Marcus Antoninus On fate, and many other volumes
On persecution which his followers translated from the Syriac
language into Greek. If indeed so much force and brilliancy appears in
the translation, how great it must have been in the
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