By Water & Blood

On Bardesanes and Harmonius

Bardesanes the Syrian, setting out from Edessa, flourished in the times of Verus Marcus Caesar. They say that this man cut away much of the mythology of Valentinus. He also wrote many things in the language of the Syrians, and certain people translated these into the Greek tongue. I myself have also met with discourses of his, both those written against fate and those against the heresy of Marcion, and not a few others. They say that Harmonius too, becoming this man’s child, was educated in the Greek tongue at Athens. This man also wrote many things, using the language of the Syrians. Ephraim the Syrian, the all-praiseworthy, nobly refuted the error of both.