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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 167 CHAPTER XXX. Of Baraemnes, the Syrian, and the uwrks of his extant UNDER the same reign, also, as heresies abounded in the country between the rivers (Mesopotamia,) lived one Bardesanes; a man of very great abilities, and a powerful disputant in the Syriac tongue. This man composed dialogues against Marcion and certain others of different opinions, and committed them to writ ing in his native language, together with many other works. These were translated from the Syriac into the Greek, by his friends ; for as a powerful assertor of the word, he had many followers. Among these there is a most able dialogue On Fate, addressed to Antonine. Many others also, he is said to have written on occasion of the persecution which then arose. He was at first indeed a disciple of Valentine, but afterwards, rejecting his doctrine, and having refuted most of his fictions, he appeared somehow to himself to have returned again to the more correct opinion. But he did not entirely wipe away the filth of his old heresy. About this time, also, died Soter, bishop of the church at Rome17