Table of Contents  |  Headwords: Alphabetical - Frequency  |  Wordforms: Alphabetical - Frequency  |  About Headwords Alphabetical [ <<  >> ] waterless   4 wave   56 wax   21 way   420 we   5450 weak   47 weaken   44 weakness   18 wealth   29 Headword we 5450 occurrence(s) Wordforms Alphabetical [ <<  >> ] waxed   11 waxing   2 way   387 ways   33 we   1991 weak   43 weaken   9 weakened   25 weakening   7 01Kor1    1:1 | the Life and Death of our Venerable and Blessed Vardapet Mashtots 01Kor1    1:1 | Written in His Memory by our Translator Vardapet Koriun 01Kor1    1:3 | as the encouragement of others, our fellows of student days 01Kor1    1:5 | And we ask them all that they 01Kor1    1:5 | them all that they assist us in our tasks by their 01Kor1    1:5 | that they assist us in our tasks by their prayers, and 01Kor1    1:5 | their prayers, and to commit us to the divine grace, so 01Kor1    1:5 | the divine grace, so that we may sail successfully and unerringly 01Kor1    2:1 | lives of men of perfection. We on our part do not 01Kor1    2:1 | men of perfection. We on our part do not wish to 01Kor1    2:1 | in disputatious eloquence, relying on our own thoughts; but through examples 01Kor1    2:1 | own thoughts; but through examples we simply wish to prove the 01Kor1    2:27 | is proclaimed in everything, concerning us in Christ, and the savor 01Kor1    2:27 | is made manifest everywhere through us 01Kor1    2:36 | the author and perfecter of our faith,” and again, “remember them 01Kor1    2:39 | that encouraged by each other, we may succeed in the accomplishment 01Kor1    2:41 | We have also the gracious canonic 01Kor1    2:42 | And thus we have from them both permission 01Kor1    2:43 | Therefore, that which we have promised shall hence forth 01Kor1    2:43 | produced, to the best of our ability; the biography of the 01Kor1    3:1 | of the person to whom we referred at the beginning of 01Kor1    3:1 | referred at the beginning of our account, whose story we have 01Kor1    3:1 | of our account, whose story we have been eager to write 01Kor1    9:4 | he descended from Mount Sinai. We do not say that he 01Kor1    9:7 | Let no one consider us bold or what we have 01Kor1    9:7 | consider us bold or what we have said. We may be 01Kor1    9:7 | or what we have said. We may be subject to censure 01Kor1    9:7 | be subject to censure for our analogy between a very modest 01Kor1    9:8 | But we feel justified in that, there 01Kor1    11:5 | in all the world.” Thus, our blessed fathers, having obtained permission 01Kor1    11:6 | At that time our blessed and wonderful land of 01Kor1    12:4 | of truth, deeming those of us who had completed their training 01Kor1    21:4 | glory of Almighty God and our Savior Jesus Christ, and in 01Kor1    22:15 | Yet when we hear that “Jesus began to 01Kor1    22:16 | for the purpose of teaching us, and is to be understood 01Kor1    22:19 | piety, served as examples to us who have followed them. Thus 01Kor1    24:6 | whom we have mentioned before, as well 01Kor1    26:4 | here are, first, Hovsep, whom we have mentioned at the beginning 01Kor1    27:4 | through the grace of Christ our God, becoming a true spiritual 01Kor1    28:1 | went to their reward as we have written. We did not 01Kor1    28:1 | reward as we have written. We did not record them by 01Kor1    28:1 | old tales; on the contrary, we witnessed their countenances, as assistants 01Kor1    28:2 | We have done this for my 01Kor1    28:2 | resort to false eloquence, but we wrote this concise work by 01Kor1    28:2 | are known not only to us but to those who have 01Kor1    28:3 | For we could not record in detail 01Kor1    28:3 | by this easier apostolic Acts. We set aside a multitude of 01Kor1    28:4 | And we related this not for the 02Agat1    2:16 | came to you, so that we might share in exacting vengeance 02Agat1    4:2 | the following import: “Why should we arise to do battle in 02Agat1    4:2 | battle in such numbers, waste our troops, and bring danger and 02Agat1    4:2 | bring danger and crisis to our lands 02Agat1    4:3 | me from the Byzantine troops. We will go to a place 02Agat1    4:4 | hand, if you defeat me, our lives shall be subject to 02Agat1    4:4 | be subject to you and we shall obey you. Thus, without 02Agat1    5:5 | came and attached yourself to us 02Agat1    5:15 | She is the glory of our race and our savior; her 02Agat1    5:15 | glory of our race and our savior; her all kings honor 02Agat1    5:31 | Our life is not hopeless, for 02Agat1    5:31 | life is not hopeless, for we worship the living one who 02Agat1    5:31 | living one who can give us life when he wishes [cf. Rom. 4.17]. For 02Agat1    5:31 | when he wishes [cf. Rom. 4.17]. For although we die, yet we live 02Agat1    5:31 | For although we die, yet we live 02Agat1    5:32 | and by his resurrection showed us the model of life, so 02Agat1    5:32 | the model of life, so we who die for his sake 02Agat1    5:35 | what are your hope and our hopelessness. Come then and kindly 02Agat1    5:36 | the gods applies also to us kings, for you said that 02Agat1    5:46 | Our hope expects and awaits this 02Agat1    6:3 | gives life and fertility to our land of Armenia 02Agat1    6:4 | so far as to insult us as well, daring to call 02Agat1    6:4 | as well, daring to call us horses and mules 02Agat1    6:5 | these insults - even to calling us animals - now I shall cast 02Agat1    7:5 | and you have given us the joy of untroubled repose 02Agat1    7:5 | garden of delight. You made us immortal and free of pain 02Agat1    7:5 | of pain and prepared for us the joyful destiny of unending 02Agat1    7:5 | destiny of unending life, which we would have enjoyed if we 02Agat1    7:5 | we would have enjoyed if we had kept the commandment that 02Agat1    7:5 | commandment that you placed on us not to eat from the 02Agat1    7:8 | For if we had observed your commandment, Lord 02Agat1    7:8 | for the sake of testing our virtue, you would have granted 02Agat1    7:8 | virtue, you would have granted us life without pain, free of 02Agat1    7:9 | We sowed and increased, as you 02Agat1    7:9 | and increased, as you commanded us to live in bodily fashion 02Agat1    7:9 | in which you had placed us 02Agat1    7:11 | so, if we had observed your commandment, you 02Agat1    7:11 | commandment, you would have shown us the example of Enoch. For 02Agat1    7:11 | For you would have transferred us from the delightful garden and 02Agat1    7:11 | the delightful garden and from our earthly condition to immortality, as 02Agat1    7:12 | you had prepared previously for our glory before the world existed 02Agat1    7:14 | But when the enemy saw us being honored by the benevolence 02Agat1    7:14 | honor of the crown of our boasting, of the honor given 02Agat1    7:15 | likeness of the image of our form and I have set 02Agat1    7:17 | compassion on the weakness of our humanity, in your perpetual mercy 02Agat1    7:17 | mercy you did not abandon us because of your benevolence 02Agat1    7:26 | put on the likeness of our flesh from the virgin [cf. Phil. 2.7], in 02Agat1    7:26 | his own likeness to raise us to the divinity, who became 02Agat1    7:26 | the divinity, who became like us 02Agat1    7:27 | man and was incorporate like us, yet he is and remains 02Agat1    7:29 | mankind, therefore he became like us, that he might bring us 02Agat1    7:29 | us, that he might bring us to abundance by the grace 02Agat1    7:46 | For he came and redeemed us [cf. Gal. 3.13] with his blood from bondage 02Agat1    7:46 | by his divinity, and freed us from slavery to the wickedness 02Agat1    7:46 | the wickedness of sin [cf. Rom. 8.2], For we are the price of your 02Agat1    7:47 | For we are not masters of ourselves 02Agat1    7:47 | not masters of ourselves if we follow our own will or 02Agat1    7:47 | of ourselves if we follow our own will or the will 02Agat1    7:47 | men - although they might be our bodily masters 02Agat1    7:48 | But we must honor them as is 02Agat1    7:48 | whereas your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, can cast 02Agat1    7:52 | in your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who was 02Agat1    7:53 | you sent to death for our sins, that he might take 02Agat1    7:53 | sins, that he might take our sins upon himself and therewith 02Agat1    7:53 | upon himself the punishment for our transgressions by his sufferings on 02Agat1    7:54 | the world’ [Matt. 28.20], do not deprive us of your hand [cf. Eccl. 7.18], but strengthen 02Agat1    7:54 | of your hand [cf. Eccl. 7.18], but strengthen us in your will 02Agat1    7:55 | that we may be able to endure 02Agat1    7:55 | name, that the boast of us your faithful servants in the 02Agat1    7:56 | But, Lord, join us to the number of your 02Agat1    7:56 | you did not haphazardly abandon us in the sins of our 02Agat1    7:56 | us in the sins of our fathers and the fire-worship 02Agat1    7:56 | and the fire-worship of our ancestors and the lawlessness of 02Agat1    7:56 | ancestors and the lawlessness of our forefathers 02Agat1    7:57 | And you permitted us to know your nature as 02Agat1    7:57 | as creator and God, lest we be lost in the vanity 02Agat1    7:58 | creatures, lest your anger overwhelm us, lest your indignation destroy us 02Agat1    7:58 | us, lest your indignation destroy us, and lest your wrath be 02Agat1    7:59 | you will send again to us the apportioner of each one’s 02Agat1    7:59 | apportioner of each one’s deserts [cf. Col. 3.24], our Lord Jesus Christ 02Agat1    7:60 | that we too may be joyful of 02Agat1    7:75 | Doctor [cf. Matt. 9.12] of our ills, healer of the broken 02Agat1    7:78 | for your name’s sake, that we may overcome the forces of 02Agat1    7:84 | and your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who was 02Agat1    7:84 | was sent by you to us 02Agat1    7:85 | put on the flesh of our humanity, and who depicted and 02Agat1    7:87 | worthy of his divinity, that we, seeing the divinity of the 02Agat1    7:87 | through the flesh related to ours, might honor the same in 02Agat1    7:89 | are bountiful to all, grant us to become martyrs for your 02Agat1    7:90 | of your creatures and joined’ our mortal nature to your immortality 02Agat1    7:91 | Therefore, let us be martyrs unto death for 02Agat1    7:91 | death for your life, that we may be joined to the 02Agat1    7:92 | what other return indeed can we make for the blessings that 02Agat1    7:92 | that come from you, unless we give up our lives for 02Agat1    7:92 | you, unless we give up our lives for your commandments to 02Agat1    7:93 | that we may become inheritors of your 02Agat1    7:93 | were pleasing before you and we may offer ourselves as a 02Agat1    7:93 | sacrifice to your divinity; that we may lose our lives and 02Agat1    7:93 | divinity; that we may lose our lives and again find them 02Agat1    7:94 | when we sit on your right hand 02Agat1    7:94 | and your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ 02Agat1    7:99 | bitter vinegar and gall for us ( many references) - sweeten the heart 02Agat1    7:105 | Make us sons of light and sons 02Agat1    7:107 | But we earthly creatures, how at all 02Agat1    7:107 | creatures, how at all can we number our tribulations and sufferings 02Agat1    7:107 | at all can we number our tribulations and sufferings? For you 02Agat1    8:14 | and torment which come upon us for the sake of piety 02Agat1    10:11 | that can be extinguished. Let us see what your God will 02Agat1    11:3 | he has been living among us and we did not recognize 02Agat1    11:3 | been living among us and we did not recognize him. But 02Agat1    11:4 | sake of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 02Agat1    12:3 | estates [dastakert] of the Caesars (?), may we receive protection from our demigod 02Agat1    12:3 | may we receive protection from our demigod Parthians, and from the 02Agat1    12:3 | and from the glory of our kings and brave ancestors 02Agat1    12:4 | everyone know from the orders we have sent to you, that 02Agat1    12:4 | have sent to you, that we are concerned for your prosperity 02Agat1    12:4 | for your prosperity. For when we were in the land of 02Agat1    12:4 | land of the Greeks (Byzantines), we observed the concern of the 02Agat1    12:5 | of fruits offered to them. We observed also the zeal of 02Agat1    12:6 | Furthermore, we noticed how they received as 02Agat1    12:10 | Now we also want to give a 02Agat1    12:10 | you, in all complete goodness. We command that you perform worship 02Agat1    12:10 | and his family, so do we, likewise, care for the prosperity 02Agat1    12:10 | care for the prosperity of our land of Armenia 02Agat1    12:11 | workers [gortsakalq], and those beloved of our Arsacid kings, the peasants [shinakanq], residents 02Agat1    12:11 | kings, the peasants [shinakanq], residents [bnakq], [dzeratunkq (?) and dzerasun (?)], whom we have provided for, nourished, cared 02Agat1    12:11 | and advanced, thinking to benefit our common good 02Agat1    12:13 | aid of the gods and our kings all of you who 02Agat1    12:13 | dwell in prosperity, as indeed we are well 02Agat1    12:16 | all, greetings. Be well, as we ourselves are well 02Agat1    12:17 | and peace were granted to us - from the beginning, from the 02Agat1    12:17 | beginning, from the days of our ancestors, and that it was 02Agat1    12:18 | Yet when we were not able to please 02Agat1    12:18 | to soften their will toward us, in their anger they rejected 02Agat1    12:18 | anger they rejected and removed us from our great lordship 02Agat1    12:18 | rejected and removed us from our great lordship 02Agat1    12:19 | regards the sect of Christians, we are ordering you - whether it 02Agat1    12:19 | the worship of the gods, we command that should such Christians 02Agat1    12:22 | of the gods, and from us find goodness 02Agat1    12:23 | Be well, and we ourselves are well 02Agat1    13:13 | now help us too, Lord, in this struggle 02Agat1    13:13 | in this struggle which oppresses us, that we may overcome the 02Agat1    13:13 | struggle which oppresses us, that we may overcome the traps and 02Agat1    13:13 | of your church exalted [cf. Lk. 1.69; Psalms, passim], that we too may become worthy to 02Agat1    13:14 | no lack of oil for our lamps [cf. Matt. 25.8], nor let the torches 02Agat1    13:14 | torches of the faith of our oath of holiness be extinguished 02Agat1    13:14 | the night of destruction overshadow our shining paths. Let not our 02Agat1    13:14 | our shining paths. Let not our feet stumble from your luminous 02Agat1    13:14 | Let not the pupils of our eyes be blinded to the 02Agat1    13:15 | which your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, sowed in 02Agat1    13:15 | Lord Jesus Christ, sowed in us [cf. Matt. 13.4]. Let not the rebellious beast 02Agat1    13:15 | Let not the enemy of our covenant scatter the sheep of 02Agat1    13:16 | Lord our God, who sent your only 02Agat1    13:17 | And we heard him say ’Although they 02Agat1    13:18 | Now have mercy, Lord, on us who have taken refuge in 02Agat1    13:18 | in your holy name. Let us not be joined to the 02Agat1    13:18 | Permit not the chastity of our holiness to be a brothel 02Agat1    13:18 | pearl of the virginity of our faith to their impious and 02Agat1    13:19 | whose chief corner-stone was our Lord Jesus Christ [cf. I Pet. 2.6] through his 02Agat1    13:20 | heaven from your holiness [cf. Ps. 101.20; Baruch 2.16], lest we become like that house which 02Agat1    13:20 | and various trials [cf. Matt. 7.26]. But confirm us in the truth of the 02Agat1    13:20 | gospel of peace [cf. Eph. 6.15], and lead us according to your will, and 02Agat1    13:20 | to your will, and make us worthy of the marriage of 02Agat1    13:20 | of your glory. And preserve us under your wings [cf. Psalms, passim], that we 02Agat1    13:20 | us under your wings [cf. Psalms, passim], that we may reach the haven of 02Agat1    13:21 | And give us to drink the cup of 02Agat1    13:21 | the cup of martyrdom, that we may receive the crown as 02Agat1    14:4 | The emperor Caesar Diocletian to our beloved brother and colleague Trdat 02Agat1    14:5 | Let your fraternity, our comrade in arms, know of 02Agat1    14:5 | the evils that continually befall us from this erring sect of 02Agat1    14:5 | of the Christians: in everything our majesty is derided by their 02Agat1    14:5 | derided by their religion and our rule is despised by them 02Agat1    14:7 | They have been condemned by our just laws because they embittered 02Agat1    14:7 | because they embittered and angered our forefathers, our fathers and predecessors 02Agat1    14:7 | embittered and angered our forefathers, our fathers and predecessors. Our swords 02Agat1    14:7 | forefathers, our fathers and predecessors. Our swords have been blunted and 02Agat1    14:11 | Although we have inflicted on them all 02Agat1    14:12 | Although we have made countless terrible threats 02Agat1    15:22 | this be so. But let us, with you, be received by 02Agat1    15:22 | by him who has led us from our youth until today 02Agat1    15:22 | who has led us from our youth until today and to 02Agat1    15:22 | this very hour in which we now find ourselves 02Agat1    15:26 | blood for the healing of our woes 02Agat1    15:27 | impious Philistines [cf. Gen. 26.7]; do not deprive us of your support for the 02Agat1    15:27 | and gave your words to our mouths, that we might thereby 02Agat1    15:27 | words to our mouths, that we might thereby be saved from 02Agat1    15:28 | your hearts’ [cf. Matt. 6.9; Lk. 1.49, 11.2; I Pet. 3.15]. And you taught us to ask you and say 02Agat1    15:28 | ’Holy be your name’ [Matt. 6.9; Lk. 11.2] over us. This we ask from you 02Agat1    15:28 | your name’ [Matt. 6.9; Lk. 11.2] over us. This we ask from you. Behold many 02Agat1    15:28 | holy name which is upon us, and the temple of your 02Agat1    15:28 | of your name. For although we are weak and unworthy, yet 02Agat1    15:28 | yet do you, Lord, save our souls from dishonorable scandal 02Agat1    15:29 | and sweet one, who cast us into this trial, grant us 02Agat1    15:29 | us into this trial, grant us victory through your power; for 02Agat1    15:29 | your name will conquer; keep us in hope and chastity, that 02Agat1    15:29 | hope and chastity, that thereby we may enter the allotted number 02Agat1    15:29 | of your just ones [cf. Col. 1.12], that we may receive the rewards of 02Agat1    15:29 | may receive the rewards of our labors which you will give 02Agat1    15:30 | from the watery flood, save us from the flood of impieties 02Agat1    15:30 | flood of impieties that surrounds us 02Agat1    15:32 | more will you care for us, whom you have called the 02Agat1    16:3 | forbid that riches should deceive us, or luxury charm us, or 02Agat1    16:3 | deceive us, or luxury charm us, or kingdoms allure us, or 02Agat1    16:3 | charm us, or kingdoms allure us, or torments oppress us, or 02Agat1    16:3 | allure us, or torments oppress us, or torture and persecution imperil 02Agat1    16:3 | or torture and persecution imperil us, no matter in how many 02Agat1    16:3 | how many ways they torment us. Will we really fear the 02Agat1    16:3 | ways they torment us. Will we really fear the terrible death 02Agat1    16:3 | are about to bring upon us 02Agat1    16:4 | Heaven forbid that we exchange for this transitory life 02Agat1    16:4 | not away. Heaven forbid that we deny the God ’who is’ 02Agat1    16:5 | death - no one can separate us from the love of Christ 02Agat1    16:6 | For to him we have dedicated our virginity, to 02Agat1    16:6 | to him we have dedicated our virginity, to him we have 02Agat1    16:6 | dedicated our virginity, to him we have commended our purity, for 02Agat1    16:6 | to him we have commended our purity, for him we wait 02Agat1    16:6 | commended our purity, for him we wait and his love we 02Agat1    16:6 | we wait and his love we await with longing until we 02Agat1    16:6 | we await with longing until we stand before his praiseworthy glory 02Agat1    16:18 | you cast him out from our human state and brought him 02Agat1    17:13 | the cup of death which we have to drink together 02Agat1    17:17 | he has also prepared for us 02Agat1    17:18 | encouraged and strengthened you and us also; the same will also 02Agat1    17:18 | the same will also make us worthy of the crown and 02Agat1    17:18 | and will strengthen you and us, so that we may dwell 02Agat1    17:18 | you and us, so that we may dwell in God’s eternal 02Agat1    17:19 | But our Lord and King and God 02Agat1    17:19 | King and God, who for our sake was humbled to disgrace 02Agat1    17:19 | disgrace [cf. Phil. 2.8], may he not leave us despised [cf. I Cor. 4.10] because we desired his 02Agat1    17:19 | not leave us despised [cf. I Cor. 4.10] because we desired his power. May the 02Agat1    17:19 | savior of the world help us, who did not helplessly abandon 02Agat1    17:19 | who did not helplessly abandon us who hoped in him but 02Agat1    17:19 | hoped in him but considered us worthy of comfort by his 02Agat1    17:20 | humbled, and may he keep us his handmaidens from all sin 02Agat1    17:20 | handmaidens from all sin, as we heard today. For his almighty 02Agat1    17:20 | almighty right hand has preserved us, and will preserve us for 02Agat1    17:20 | preserved us, and will preserve us for eternity. But only let 02Agat1    17:20 | for eternity. But only let us not be deprived of his 02Agat1    17:21 | hosts and come and rescue us [cf. Ps. 79.3-4]; and we shall invoke the 02Agat1    17:21 | come and rescue us [cf. Ps. 79.3-4]; and we shall invoke the name of 02Agat1    17:21 | him reveal his face to us and we shall live [cf. Ps. 79.20]. For 02Agat1    17:21 | his face to us and we shall live [cf. Ps. 79.20]. For he is 02Agat1    17:21 | live [cf. Ps. 79.20]. For he is God our savior, and for his sake 02Agat1    17:21 | savior, and for his sake we shall endure forever 02Agat1    17:22 | humbled in order to raise us up, and who shed his 02Agat1    17:22 | blood on the cross; for our lives and salvation he was 02Agat1    17:25 | appeared in a revelation to us who piously beseeched him, the 02Agat1    17:25 | same will grant you and us to see him face to 02Agat1    17:37 | blessings which have been granted us by you? For you have 02Agat1    17:37 | have kept firm the hope we had in you, and you 02Agat1    17:37 | you, and you have saved us from the filthy teeth of 02Agat1    17:37 | beast who would have ravaged us 02Agat1    17:38 | But what more could we offer you in return save 02Agat1    17:38 | offer you in return save our souls in thanks for your 02Agat1    17:38 | salvation. For you have made us worthy of your service, to 02Agat1    17:38 | your name wherewith you saved us. For save you, Lord, none 02Agat1    17:38 | you, Lord, none other do we know, and we invoke your 02Agat1    17:38 | other do we know, and we invoke your name all the 02Agat1    17:39 | But it is better for us to die in our purity 02Agat1    17:39 | for us to die in our purity than to stretch out 02Agat1    17:39 | purity than to stretch out our hands to foreign gods who 02Agat1    17:39 | ’your good Spirit will lead us in a straight land’ [Ps. 142.10], who 02Agat1    17:39 | straight land’ [Ps. 142.10], who will bring us to the eternal and heavenly 02Agat1    17:40 | We must come before your only 02Agat1    17:42 | For we are from your people and 02Agat1    17:42 | flock of your pasture [cf. Ps. 78.13]; let us enter the mansions which you 02Agat1    17:43 | Let us hasten, Lord, to leave this 02Agat1    17:43 | the revelation and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 02Agat1    17:44 | Only let us be saved from this profanation 02Agat1    17:44 | But if there come upon us torments for your name’s sake 02Agat1    17:44 | torments for your name’s sake [cf. Matt. 5.11; Jn. 15.20], we are ready 02Agat1    17:45 | For you will not abandon us; since you, Lord, yourself bear 02Agat1    17:46 | Truly, Lord, we rejoiced and were glad at 02Agat1    17:46 | this struggle, which has overtaken us, to fight by your love 02Agat1    17:46 | power has won, and given us the victory 02Agat1    17:47 | We were glad for these days 02Agat1    17:47 | for these days that cast us low, and for these months 02Agat1    17:47 | for these months in which we have seen torments 02Agat1    17:48 | of your hands, and lead us to your celestial city, Jerusalem 02Agat1    17:48 | the Lord God be over us 02Agat1    18:8 | These said as follows: “ We have loved you, Lord, that 02Agat1    18:8 | might hear the voice of our prayers. You inclined your benign 02Agat1    18:8 | inclined your benign ear and we invoked you 02Agat1    18:9 | for you did not deprive our unworthiness of your blessings. You 02Agat1    18:9 | of your blessings. You preserved us like the apple of an 02Agat1    18:9 | of an eye and saved us under the shadow of your 02Agat1    18:9 | of these iniquities [cf. Deut. 32.10-11; 16.8-9; Ps. 60.5]. And behold we die for your glorious name 02Agat1    18:11 | sisters, with your handmaid and our mother and leader, Gayane, and 02Agat1    18:11 | and leader, Gayane, and Rhipsime our child who loved you 02Agat1    19:5 | the Greeks and Romans, and our Parthian territory, for that is 02Agat1    19:5 | Parthian territory, for that is our homeland, and Asorestan and Tadjikistan 02Agat1    19:17 | began to speak as follows: “ We thank you, Lord, for making 02Agat1    19:17 | thank you, Lord, for making us worthy to die on behalf 02Agat1    19:17 | great name, and for honoring our earthly nature so that we 02Agat1    19:17 | our earthly nature so that we might become worthy of your 02Agat1    19:19 | Now remember us, Lord, who ’for your name’s 02Agat1    19:19 | your name’s sake die daily; we have been considered as a 02Agat1    19:19 | Arise and do not abandon us for your name’s sake’ [Ps. 43.23-24]. Give 02Agat1    19:19 | for your name’s sake’ [Ps. 43.23-24]. Give us your victory, and the evil 02Agat1    20:29 | the blessed Gregory’s feet, saying: “ We beg you to forgive the 02Agat1    20:29 | to forgive the crime which we committed against you 02Agat1    20:40 | God’s martyrs and note: “Forgive us all our evil crimes which 02Agat1    20:40 | and note: “Forgive us all our evil crimes which we perpetrated 02Agat1    20:40 | all our evil crimes which we perpetrated on you, and beseech 02Agat1    20:40 | you, and beseech God on our behalf so that we will 02Agat1    20:40 | on our behalf so that we will not be lost 02Agat1    21:9 | For those who fell into our hands were tortured and killed 02Agat1    21:9 | were tortured and killed, and we judged them according to our 02Agat1    21:9 | we judged them according to our own desires.’ 02Agat1    21:14 | ’Blessed is he who made us worthy to attain the portion 02Agat1    21:15 | And truly we have attained gloriously the cross 02Agat1    21:15 | by the passion of Christ we may enjoy his will and 02Agat1    21:29 | for those who commemorate them; we pray to have their intercession 02Agat1    21:32 | humble by his becoming like us 02Agat1    21:34 | And he preserved our breath in our body, although 02Agat1    21:34 | he preserved our breath in our body, although there came upon 02Agat1    21:34 | body, although there came upon us afflictions of bodily sufferings and 02Agat1    21:34 | bodily sufferings and terrible pains. We were tormented more than any 02Agat1    21:36 | I was previously unworthy, behold we now serve among your words 02Agat1    21:36 | profit for souls and bodies. We have been made the doctor 02Agat1    21:37 | the benevolence of God let us begin to nourish you with 02Agat1    21:38 | intercession on your behalf; and our words and discourses and effort 02Agat1    22:1 | with one mouth: “Now have we any hope of forgiveness from 02Agat1    22:1 | of forgiveness from God? For we were lost in our ignorance 02Agat1    22:1 | For we were lost in our ignorance on the path of 02Agat1    22:1 | now these many sins of ours be forgiven 02Agat1    22:3 | Then they note: “Inform us and confirm our minds that 02Agat1    22:3 | note: “Inform us and confirm our minds that we may be 02Agat1    22:3 | and confirm our minds that we may be able to appeal 02Agat1    22:3 | appeal to the face of our creator whom we did not 02Agat1    22:3 | face of our creator whom we did not know, if he 02Agat1    22:3 | he will turn and accept our repentance and if there is 02Agat1    22:3 | he not already cut off our hope of life 02Agat1    22:4 | not remember the crimes which we did to you, and will 02Agat1    22:4 | you, and will you give us true teaching, and not hold 02Agat1    22:4 | and not hold rancor against us nor regard us with antipathy 02Agat1    22:4 | rancor against us nor regard us with antipathy nor hinder us 02Agat1    22:4 | us with antipathy nor hinder us from the true road 02Agat1    22:9 | Although we were unworthy, nonetheless he preserved 02Agat1    22:9 | were unworthy, nonetheless he preserved us for your benefit and revealed 02Agat1    22:9 | in order that by preserving us and bringing us to the 02Agat1    22:9 | by preserving us and bringing us to the task of your 02Agat1    22:9 | God might be fulfilled through us towards you 02Agat1    22:19 | If we see you turning towards the 02Agat1    22:19 | the divinity with prompt readiness, we shall with good-will begin 02Agat1    22:20 | And how for the present we must walk following the commandments 02Agat1    22:21 | of his loving kindness through our Lord Jesus Christ 02Agat1    22:22 | We shall begin from the beginning 02Agat1    22:23 | But at the very beginning we shall tell you of the 02Agat1    22:24 | We shall strive to complete everything 02Agat1    22:24 | instruction, following the divine command. We considered it of great importance 02Agat1    22:24 | of great importance to conduct our discourse about him in suitable 02Agat1    22:24 | suitable and appropriate terms, since we are speaking about the deity 02Agat1    22:24 | speaking about the deity. For we know that he is the 02Agat1    22:31 | Similarly, we shall begin by the omniscient 02Agat1    22:32 | May words be placed in our mouth for us to indicate 02Agat1    22:32 | placed in our mouth for us to indicate what is profitable 02Agat1    22:33 | So, let us begin by the grace of 02Agat3    1:1 | So, come, brethren, let us concern ourselves with our common 02Agat3    1:1 | let us concern ourselves with our common profit and advantage, that 02Agat3    1:3 | So, come, let us grasp the treasure of the 02Agat3    1:4 | Let us put these martyrs to rest 02Agat3    1:14 | the intercession of these saints we hope to attain the same 02Agat3    4:1 | So, come, we shall tell you, brethren, of 02Agat3    5:2 | he has shown you through us the path to life and 02Agat3    5:4 | Come, let us build the chapels and put 02Agat3    5:4 | they in turn may bring us to renewal 02Agat3    6:11 | But now come and let us put each of these martyrs 02Agat3    8:19 | Now come and let us honorably enclose the place designated 02Agat3    8:19 | the place designated and commanded us for the Lord’s house 02Agat3    10:2 | as a goal: “That united we may attain the measure of 02Agat3    10:2 | great Savior, God”, so that our boast is in the Cross 02Agat3    10:2 | is in the Cross and our praise is to the glory 02Agat3    10:8 | and crying loudly: “Woe to us, woe to us, woe to 02Agat3    10:8 | Woe to us, woe to us, woe to us. For Jesus 02Agat3    10:8 | woe to us, woe to us. For Jesus, the son of 02Agat3    10:8 | daughter of man, has forced us to flee from the whole 02Agat3    10:8 | dead man - he has forced us to flee 02Agat3    10:9 | the entire universe, where shall we flee to 02Agat3    10:10 | Let us go to the inhabitants of 02Agat3    10:10 | in the northern regions. Maybe we will be able to survive 02Agat3    10:11 | without rest, Jesus has made us beat the air and has 02Agat3    10:11 | the air and has separated us from the habitations of humankind 02Agat3    10:11 | the habitations of humankind preventing us from accomplishing our desires through 02Agat3    10:11 | humankind preventing us from accomplishing our desires through them 02Agat3    13:6 | He note: “Come, let us hasten to make as our 02Agat3    13:6 | us hasten to make as our pastor Gregory, this leader of 02Agat3    13:6 | pastor Gregory, this leader of our lives given to us by 02Agat3    13:6 | of our lives given to us by God, so that he 02Agat3    13:6 | God, so that he illuminate us with baptism and renew us 02Agat3    13:6 | us with baptism and renew us, as a teacher of the 02Agat3    13:6 | by the sacrament of God, our creator 02Agat3    14:7 | the Edict: “From earliest times we were lost, enveloped in the 02Agat3    14:7 | the sun of righteousness [cf. Mai. 4.2]; therefore, we were blinded and immersed in 02Agat3    14:8 | sweetness and benevolence of God our creator appeared [cf. Tit. 3.4] to admonish and 02Agat3    14:8 | appeared [cf. Tit. 3.4] to admonish and illuminate us his creatures, he shot the 02Agat3    14:8 | of his living light [cf. Wis. 7.26] into our hearts and vivified our mortality 02Agat3    14:8 | into our hearts and vivified our mortality by sending his holy 02Agat3    14:9 | came here and revealed to our foolishness their fortitude, bravery and 02Agat3    14:10 | but in order to teach us foolish one’s wisdom - with how 02Agat3    14:10 | inflicted such severe punishments on us, so that our king even 02Agat3    14:10 | punishments on us, so that our king even became a pig 02Agat3    14:11 | then he had mercy on us at the intercession of these 02Agat3    14:11 | through the martyred Gregory healed us all 02Agat3    14:12 | therefore he has been given us by God as a leader 02Agat3    14:13 | God has destroyed and abolished our former vain habits of worshiping 02Agat3    14:13 | idols, and he has taught us all his testimonies and commandments 02Agat3    14:13 | his testimonies and commandments for us to follow his will. He 02Agat3    14:13 | will. He has even given us a clear command to appoint 02Agat3    14:13 | appoint this same Gregory as our shepherd and overseer and truthful 02Agat3    14:14 | mercy and through your prayers we send you greetings - I king 02Agat3    14:15 | Therefore, we have sent to you the 02Agat3    14:15 | men, the honorable nobles of our great country, to inform you 02Agat3    14:15 | which have been done amongst us in this land 02Agat3    14:16 | And we have had sent to you 02Agat3    14:16 | confessor of Christ, Gregory. And we have written this edict to 02Agat3    14:16 | that you may ordain for us Gregory as overseer and teacher 02Agat3    14:16 | just as has been commanded us by God 02Agat3    14:17 | pray that God may make us worthy of his mercy and 02Agat3    14:17 | of his mercy and that we may walk righteously in his 02Agat3    14:17 | love and greeting may give us peace 02Agat3    15:13 | and, with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, set out 02Agat3    15:15 | to one another: “Come, let us see the blessed bishop, Gregory 02Agat3    18:10 | as has been narrated to us, with unbounded joy we have 02Agat3    18:10 | to us, with unbounded joy we have thanked the immutable glory 02Agat3    18:19 | Now when we saw this man who is 02Agat3    18:19 | is so marvelous, and when we heard of the mighty wonders 02Agat3    18:19 | accomplished through him among you, we were submerged in the depths 02Agat3    18:19 | unceasing mouth and unresting voice we blessed our Lord Jesus Christ 02Agat3    18:19 | and unresting voice we blessed our Lord Jesus Christ, the benevolent 02Agat3    18:19 | and dispenser of gifts. And we offered thanksgiving to God the 02Agat3    18:20 | Now do you remember us, far off in the body 02Agat3    18:21 | And may the testimony between our two regions remain firm, that 02Agat3    18:21 | new high priestly rank from us may remain immovably in our 02Agat3    18:21 | us may remain immovably in our church of Caesarea, whence has 02Agat3    24:7 | all-vivifying Spirit comes to our support as intercessor through our 02Agat3    24:7 | our support as intercessor through our inarticulate groaning 02Agat3    24:8 | Now when we hear that “Jesus began to 02Agat3    24:8 | holy Spirit is to instruct us that we intercede for each 02Agat3    24:8 | is to instruct us that we intercede for each other; and 02Agat3    25:1 | At that time our land of Armenia was blessed 02Agat3    28:14 | is the man through whom we came to know God’s benevolence 02Agat3    30:1 | Now as we have received the command of 02Agat3    30:1 | of chronicles, in this way we composed our work, setting everything 02Agat3    30:1 | in this way we composed our work, setting everything in order 02Agat3    30:2 | But we looked, as in a mirror 02Agat3    30:6 | So, to bring to completion our narrative in the proper fashion 02Agat3    30:6 | narrative in the proper fashion, we have not set all this 02Agat3    30:6 | from the spiritual deeds that we ourselves saw with our own 02Agat3    30:6 | that we ourselves saw with our own eyes and were present 02Agat3    30:6 | from the graceful teaching that we heard and of which we 02Agat3    30:6 | we heard and of which we were servants [cf. Lk. 1.2] according to the 02Agat3    30:7 | We did not make skillful yet 02Agat3    30:7 | skillful yet false stories from our own words, but leaving aside 02Agat3    30:7 | from famous and knowledgeable men, we have set down the main 02Agat3    30:7 | brief. Which not merely to us, O king, but whenever this 02Agat3    30:8 | For we were not able to indicate 02Agat3    30:8 | done by the saints, but we have taken refuge in the 02Agat3    30:9 | Hence in similar fashion we have made our narrative, not 02Agat3    30:9 | similar fashion we have made our narrative, not for the honor 02Agat3    30:10 | Whatever he commanded our fathers to indicate to their 02Agat3    30:11 | Creator, may say: “You are our Lord God” [Jer. 3.22]. And he will 02Agat3    31:1 | This is the true faith. We believe as we have been 02Agat3    31:1 | true faith. We believe as we have been baptized, and we 02Agat3    31:1 | we have been baptized, and we glorify as we have seen 02Agat3    31:1 | baptized, and we glorify as we have seen the light of 02Agat3    31:2 | We believe in the name of 02Agat3    31:3 | We believe in the Father, perfect 02Agat3    31:4 | We believe in one God the 02Agat3    31:10 | And we confess the Father without beginning 02Agat3    31:13 | and joined his divinity to our humanity, and the immortal with 02Agat3    31:13 | mortal, in order to make our humanity inseparable from the immortality 02Agat3    31:14 | pass over. He put on our earthly nature and joined it 02Agat3    31:15 | For our sake he drank the cup 02Agat3    31:15 | of death and gave to us the cup of immortality. And 02Agat3    31:15 | life to the mortality of us creatures by his death, when 02Agat3    31:18 | We also believe in the divine 02Agat3    31:21 | persons of the Trinity. And we hold this true faith from 02Agat3    31:22 | We believe and confess the universal 02Agat3    31:22 | universal holy Catholic church, and we look for the resurrection of 02Agat3    31:22 | dead and eternal life, and we glorify in unison and together 03Buz3    1:2 | In our present work, to preserve the 03Buz3    1:2 | the proper ordering of events, we too have briefly recorded some 03Buz3    1:3 | there is a part of our history which is the beginning 03Buz3    1:4 | noticed in the middle of our history, to complete the contents 03Buz3    1:4 | the wall of a building we recorded 03Buz3    3:6 | memory of the torments of our lord Jesus Christ, the son 03Buz3    3:19 | speak the truth and confessed: “ We came to destroy this place 03Buz3    3:20 | revealed His strength and showed us that He alone is God 03Buz3    3:20 | alone is God. And now we acknowledge and believe that He 03Buz3    3:21 | Thus, we are now bound and unable 03Buz3    6:9 | If we do not ravage, do not 03Buz3    6:9 | huge multitude of troops as we live?” Although Grigoris wanted to 03Buz3    6:10 | with such words to deprive us of the bravery of the 03Buz3    6:10 | the hunt and to destroy our lives. If we should listen 03Buz3    6:10 | to destroy our lives. If we should listen to him and 03Buz3    6:10 | the Christian faith, how will we live, for we will be 03Buz3    6:10 | how will we live, for we will be unable to mount 03Buz3    6:10 | to the natural laws of our customs 03Buz3    6:11 | who has sent him to us in order to stop our 03Buz3    6:11 | us in order to stop our pillaging expeditions from going to 03Buz3    6:11 | of this teaching. Come, let us eliminate him, go invade Armenia 03Buz3    6:11 | invade Armenia, and fill up our land with booty 03Buz3    11:7 | who have died died for our land, churches and God-given 03Buz3    11:7 | God-given faith, so that our land not be enslaved or 03Buz3    11:8 | Should the enemy capture our land they will implant here 03Buz3    11:8 | their impious, unbelieving, godless orders. We hope this will never happen 03Buz3    11:9 | Our pious martyrs waged war for 03Buz3    11:9 | out and expelling evil from our land, so that faithlessness not 03Buz3    11:12 | So let us not mourn them but revere 03Buz3    11:12 | worthily with the martyrs. Let us stipulate an eternal order throughout 03Buz3    11:12 | stipulate an eternal order throughout our entire land so that everyone 03Buz3    11:13 | We shall celebrate the feast and 03Buz3    11:13 | through them God has found us agreeable and hereafter will grant 03Buz3    11:13 | agreeable and hereafter will grant us peace 03Buz3    14:12 | miracles in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ 03Buz3    14:33 | you to the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the 03Buz3    14:62 | more necessary is it for us, earthlings, to be covered with 03Buz3    20:13 | says, ’that lordship belonged to our fathers, and now to us 03Buz3    20:13 | our fathers, and now to us. I shall not rest until 03Buz3    20:20 | saying: “It is befitting for us to divert and gladden the 03Buz3    20:20 | man who is coming to us, with hunts, banquets, and all 03Buz3    20:21 | the hunting places here in our country are so great, because 03Buz3    20:21 | sufficient for his recreation. Let us not hunt in places rich 03Buz3    20:22 | Let us do things for the sake 03Buz3    20:23 | let us hunt in the Apahunik country 03Buz3    20:35 | coal to heat iron so we may blind this king of 03Buz3    21:2 | saying: “What is this that we are doing, mourning? The enemy 03Buz3    21:2 | mourning? The enemy will conquer us in this way. Very soon 03Buz3    21:3 | Come, let us console ourselves, save ourselves and 03Buz3    21:3 | console ourselves, save ourselves and our land, and seek vengeance for 03Buz3    21:3 | land, and seek vengeance for our natural lord 03Buz4    3:14 | shout, saying: “Let Nerses be our shepherd 03Buz4    3:16 | thing in the king’s presence: “ We do not want anyone else 03Buz4    3:16 | not want anyone else as our shepherd but Nerses 03Buz4    3:19 | Let your sins be upon us and upon our sons, and 03Buz4    3:19 | be upon us and upon our sons, and your impieties as 03Buz4    3:19 | well. Do you restore for us your great grandfather’s deeds and 03Buz4    3:22 | the sinner, who must be our shepherd.” It was God’s providence 03Buz4    5:9 | the birth of God, as we can convince you with countless 03Buz4    5:9 | you with countless testimonies, then we can wash and cleanse you 03Buz4    5:10 | times, which took place for our salvation and life, (confess) the 03Buz4    5:11 | and renewal of life, then we will also honor your son 03Buz4    5:11 | and cleanses from sins, and we will ask our Lord Jesus 03Buz4    5:11 | sins, and we will ask our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive 03Buz4    5:12 | to Orthodoxy and confess with us together as an Orthodox 03Buz4    5:13 | namesake and creator; he loved us for his love. For his 03Buz4    5:13 | love. For his love for us, he was sent from the 03Buz4    5:13 | by his will, acted for us in the flesh in the 03Buz4    5:14 | of a servant to save us from service 03Buz4    5:20 | He became an example of our life, dying, became the firstborn 03Buz4    5:20 | resurrection, so that He created us with an unchangeable spirit and 03Buz4    5:20 | an immortal body, so that we, people, not only lived in 03Buz4    5:20 | and rational forces hoped with us for this unchangeable 03Buz4    5:22 | say, from the Virgin that we had, God was born as 03Buz4    5:22 | born as a man, that we, freed from life, from the 03Buz4    5:37 | the Son of God of our creation, and in humility, trample 03Buz4    5:39 | Instead, we will enjoy the grace of 03Buz4    5:42 | and are equally involved in our bliss in Daon, which the 03Buz4    5:46 | When we die, we will see him 03Buz4    5:46 | When we die, we will see him, as the 03Buz4    5:46 | Apostle Paul says, that now we see him in a prominent 03Buz4    5:46 | he comes, he will bring us immortality and the purity of 03Buz4    5:48 | not die without being with us 03Buz4    5:50 | convert to the true faith, we will ask the Lord for 03Buz4    5:50 | Lord for your son, put our hand on him and say 03Buz4    5:51 | there be, or how dare we stand before him, ask and 03Buz4    5:66 | Even now, if we believe, Jesus Christ, the Son 03Buz4    5:67 | should not be harmed on our part, if not, a great 03Buz4    5:67 | great war will begin between us and the great Armenian king 03Buz4    5:74 | came with this man told us that this is a relative 03Buz4    5:77 | king has sent him to us for love, but he came 03Buz4    5:77 | but he came and ruined us, he is a criminal and 03Buz4    6:10 | be afraid, for it was our Lord Jesus Christ who ordered 03Buz4    6:11 | and oozed saving water for us, so that we could, having 03Buz4    6:11 | water for us, so that we could, having repented, wash ourselves 03Buz4    6:11 | he himself became bread for us, gave us his blood to 03Buz4    6:11 | became bread for us, gave us his blood to drink in 03Buz4    6:11 | and reunite the deity with our soul and us with the 03Buz4    6:11 | deity with our soul and us with the Holy Spirit, and 03Buz4    6:11 | Spirit, and finally, to liken our being to the Deity. And 03Buz4    6:11 | the one who has shown us so many benefits, while we 03Buz4    6:11 | us so many benefits, while we have not even thanked him 03Buz4    6:11 | think that he will leave us to starve to death when 03Buz4    6:11 | to starve to death when we have been persecuted in the 03Buz4    6:12 | No, it is not so, we will ask with faith, and 03Buz4    6:12 | food will be given to us. Well, are we asking for 03Buz4    6:12 | given to us. Well, are we asking for a sign 03Buz4    6:13 | the wicked, but as for us, the Lord knows our needs 03Buz4    6:13 | for us, the Lord knows our needs and what is useful 03Buz4    6:13 | and what is useful to us, and according to this He 03Buz4    6:13 | this He will prepare what we need 03Buz4    6:14 | We are not of those about 03Buz4    6:15 | What we need cannot be obtained without 03Buz4    6:16 | And the Lord can keep us alive even without food, he 03Buz4    6:16 | without food, he can give us food, he can justify us 03Buz4    6:16 | us food, he can justify us, he can honor us with 03Buz4    6:16 | justify us, he can honor us with death in his name 03Buz4    6:16 | death in his name, giving us an ordinary natural death from 03Buz4    6:16 | invisible body; he will join us to his kingdom 03Buz4    6:17 | He can also send us a peaceful death and honor 03Buz4    6:24 | see, brothers, that God treats us as He treats his sons 03Buz4    6:24 | He treats his sons, for our edification, to make us useful 03Buz4    6:24 | for our edification, to make us useful people, to give us 03Buz4    6:24 | us useful people, to give us an honorable name and to 03Buz4    6:24 | honorable name and to honor us with the greatest rewards 03Buz4    6:25 | for this, he demands from us a little virtue, only that 03Buz4    6:25 | a little virtue, only that we love him, for which he 03Buz4    6:25 | for which he creates for us an innumerable, immeasurable, uncountable, incomparable 03Buz4    6:26 | life to lay down for us and even became food for 03Buz4    6:26 | and even became food for us and drink 03Buz4    8:3 | said to the king: “Let us arrange a dispute between us 03Buz4    8:3 | us arrange a dispute between us and them, king, and let 03Buz4    8:3 | it does not seem that we won through violence and deception 03Buz4    8:32 | let him out of prison, we will burn the whole city 03Buz4    9:9 | me, and I guarantee that our Lord himself, Jesus Christ, the 03Buz4    10:10 | We hurried to gather here in 03Buz4    10:11 | have turned into a wasteland; we need to curb Valent, who 03Buz4    10:13 | Let us choose two persons among us 03Buz4    10:13 | us choose two persons among us and send them to take 03Buz4    10:14 | come at the same hour, we will also come 03Buz4    10:16 | sophist: “Get up, let’s continue our journey 03Buz4    10:24 | They answered: “As we left (yesterday) from you, so 03Buz4    10:24 | left (yesterday) from you, so we immediately killed the enemy of 03Buz4    10:24 | and by this very hour we have returned to you 03Buz4    10:25 | those gathered got up, thanked our Lord Jesus Christ and, parting 03Buz4    10:35 | the Lord because he judged us and avenged the holy servants 03Buz4    11:7 | not in any way blame us, accept the two freed hostages 03Buz4    11:11 | and upon you, the bearers. We too have many rocks with 03Buz4    11:11 | stand this wickedness done to us? Now I will repay him 03Buz4    12:15 | had existed and were lost, we would search for them wherever 03Buz4    13:12 | judge for widows, Who for our sake descended into poverty, Who 03Buz4    13:19 | sins which you have committed, we will command all the land 03Buz4    13:19 | and supplicate for you and we shall enter into atonement with 03Buz4    14:14 | the holy places, he continued: “ We shall demolish these places, for 03Buz4    14:16 | archbishop heard this, he note: “ Our Lord Jesus Christ first chose 03Buz4    14:16 | the Holy Spirit. He commanded us not to covet or desire 03Buz4    15:31 | Who out of love for us descended from His natural heights 03Buz4    15:31 | and became a brother to us, His unworthy servants. This was 03Buz4    15:31 | vardapet of love, so that we spare each other, looking to 03Buz4    15:31 | in piety, and so that we dare not harm each other 03Buz4    15:32 | the Lord Who willingly became our brother, will not spare you 03Buz4    15:33 | For He said this to us: ’He who hears you, hears 03Buz4    15:34 | is speaking with you through us, so that you not be 03Buz4    15:60 | unjust death. And he involved us in the shedding of innocent 03Buz4    15:60 | his brother destroyed, and made us inherit unbelievable evils and curses 03Buz4    20:5 | that if you are on our side, we shall triumph 03Buz4    20:5 | you are on our side, we shall triumph 03Buz4    20:26 | For,” he said, “ we, the entire Aryan forces would 03Buz4    20:26 | king of Armenia instead of us accomplished such bravery that none 03Buz4    20:27 | Now what fitting reward can we give him 03Buz4    20:30 | sufficient affection. Rather, come, let us establish unshakable affection between ourselves 03Buz4    20:30 | he will be unseparable from us for eternity 03Buz4    20:31 | that when he comes to us from Armenia as far as 03Buz4    20:32 | Let us give this to the king 03Buz4    20:32 | other grandees and generals, let us give them the gold, silver 03Buz4    20:44 | this, get Arshak to summon us to a council, and the 03Buz4    20:48 | They all replied together: “ We heard that long ago, but 03Buz4    20:49 | do to save yourself and us 03Buz4    20:57 | flee by people from among our court here 03Buz4    24:25 | with their pagan faith note: “ We are taking the bones of 03Buz4    24:25 | of the Armenian kings to our land so that the glory 03Buz4    24:25 | this land will come to our land with the kings’ bones 03Buz4    51:2 | is now thirty years that our king Arshak has given us 03Buz4    51:2 | our king Arshak has given us not one year’s rest from 03Buz4    51:2 | one year’s rest from warfare. We have wiped the sweat from 03Buz4    51:2 | have wiped the sweat from our brows with sword, sabre, dart 03Buz4    51:3 | We are unable to stand it 03Buz4    51:3 | stand it anymore, nor are we able to fight anymore. It 03Buz4    51:3 | anymore. It is better that we leave Arshak and go to 03Buz4    51:3 | the king of Iran as our comrades who are serving him 03Buz4    51:3 | are serving him, have done. We shall do this, because we 03Buz4    51:3 | We shall do this, because we are unable to fight further 03Buz4    51:4 | law. But hereafter none of us from the land of Armenia 03Buz4    51:5 | as he feels the need; we are leaving him and do 03Buz4    51:14 | to follow their clerics, abandoning our Creator and His commandments that 03Buz4    51:16 | to his own place, for we cannot heed such words 03Buz4    53:1 | Arshak of Armenia, saying: “If we are in agreement with each 03Buz4    53:1 | with each other, come so we may see each other, and 03Buz4    53:1 | each other, and henceforth let us be as father and son 03Buz4    53:2 | asking for more war between us 03Buz4    54:5 | priest, Mari, said to me: ’We gave him the oath justly 03Buz4    54:8 | who note: ’Do not kill us. I know that the same 03Buz4    54:10 | war with the Aryans, and we have not triumphed for one 03Buz4    54:12 | to him as follows: “Excuse us for today. Tomorrow we shall 03Buz4    54:12 | Excuse us for today. Tomorrow we shall respond to you 03Buz4    54:15 | said to him: “Do what we tell you to do. Keep 03Buz4    54:16 | first to the area containing our native soil. Ask him questions 03Buz4    54:29 | have taken the station of us, your lords. I shall not 03Buz4    54:29 | shall not excuse this until we again come to occupy our 03Buz4    54:29 | we again come to occupy our rightful places 03Buz4    54:36 | for that place belongs to our azg. When I reach my 03Buz4    54:38 | obstructed things and so fatigued us. You are the one who 03Buz4    54:42 | ground, since the blessing of our father Nerses was upon us 03Buz4    54:42 | our father Nerses was upon us, and God had not forsaken 03Buz4    54:42 | and God had not forsaken us. While we acted according to 03Buz4    54:42 | had not forsaken us. While we acted according to his word 03Buz4    54:42 | accepted his counsel, be aware, we could have taught you a 03Buz4    54:42 | you a lesson. But with our eyes open, we fell into 03Buz4    54:42 | But with our eyes open, we fell into the abyss 03Buz4    56:10 | O our Creator, who created the sky 03Buz4    56:10 | out of nothing, who created us out of the earth, and 03Buz4    56:10 | of the earth, and provided us with reason, word and life 03Buz4    56:11 | You gave us your knowledge, which you communicated 03Buz5    2:14 | women of the Iranian king, our enemy 03Buz5    4:11 | of them to live. For we will bind them and take 03Buz5    4:11 | masons [creating] what is useful for our cities, mansions, and whatever else 03Buz5    4:13 | note: “The Byzantine emperor sent us to come and protect you 03Buz5    4:13 | happen to you, how could we face our king, or what 03Buz5    4:13 | you, how could we face our king, or what answer could 03Buz5    4:13 | king, or what answer could we give him? If we remain 03Buz5    4:13 | could we give him? If we remain alive here, without you 03Buz5    4:13 | here, without you, and if we reach our emperor, we would 03Buz5    4:13 | you, and if we reach our emperor, we would be criminally 03Buz5    4:13 | if we reach our emperor, we would be criminally responsible before 03Buz5    4:13 | would be criminally responsible before our emperor 03Buz5    4:14 | But king, you do as we tell you. Take the archbishop 03Buz5    4:14 | the Lord that He give us the victory 03Buz5    4:24 | that he will not deceive us, and then release him to 03Buz5    4:34 | that man will not betray us. You yourself will see the 03Buz5    4:41 | For if the Lord rewards us according to our deeds, then 03Buz5    4:41 | Lord rewards us according to our deeds, then we cannot resist 03Buz5    4:41 | according to our deeds, then we cannot resist his will and 03Buz5    4:41 | you have done justly with us in everything, O Lord, you 03Buz5    4:43 | have brought true judgments upon us in all that You have 03Buz5    4:43 | that You have brought upon us, for in truth and in 03Buz5    4:43 | brought all these things upon us for our sins 03Buz5    4:43 | these things upon us for our sins 03Buz5    4:44 | For we have sinned and acted lawlessly 03Buz5    4:44 | and have sinned in everything, we have not listened to your 03Buz5    4:45 | We have not kept them and 03Buz5    4:45 | not done as you commanded us, so that it would be 03Buz5    4:45 | it would be good for us from you. And all that 03Buz5    4:45 | that you have brought upon us, and all that you have 03Buz5    4:45 | that you have done to us, you have done according to 03Buz5    4:46 | But do not betray us forever for the sake of 03Buz5    4:46 | sake of your name. Deliver us by the power of your 03Buz5    4:49 | You know our benefit, O Lord, grant us 03Buz5    4:49 | our benefit, O Lord, grant us what you please; for if 03Buz5    4:49 | if suffering is useful to us, then multiply it, and if 03Buz5    4:49 | pleases you, grant it to us 03Buz5    4:50 | rod you want to guide us, we are in your hands 03Buz5    4:50 | you want to guide us, we are in your hands at 03Buz5    4:52 | you are just, who created us out of nothing and gave 03Buz5    4:52 | out of nothing and gave us this life, and showed us 03Buz5    4:52 | us this life, and showed us the way to life and 03Buz5    4:52 | life and salvation, and made us earthly wise and reasonable, and 03Buz5    4:52 | wise and reasonable, and became our redeemer to grant us immortality 03Buz5    4:52 | became our redeemer to grant us immortality 03Buz5    4:53 | save your church, O Lord, our God 03Buz5    4:69 | he is as honorable as we, his ancestors as our aneestors 03Buz5    4:69 | as we, his ancestors as our aneestors. For his ancestors left 03Buz5    4:69 | of Chenk, and came to our ancestors here. They lived and 03Buz5    4:69 | They lived and died for our ancestors; his father died for 03Buz5    4:69 | death. Often God has given us victory through the prayers and 03Buz5    4:69 | the prayers and requests of our father, the miraculous Nerses, and 03Buz5    4:69 | father, the miraculous Nerses, and we were favored with much peace 03Buz5    5:10 | person: “Be a sacrifice to our king Arshak 03Buz5    5:20 | immovable tower. As soon as we routed them a bit, they 03Buz5    24:6 | began to say: “Blessed is our Lord God Who made me 03Buz5    25:1 | of the beloved Daniel, whom we recalled above. At the hour 03Buz5    28:3 | that is, the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ 03Buz5    28:9 | time came, he spoke to us through the medium of his 03Buz5    28:9 | a servant and became like us infirm, in order to make 03Buz5    28:9 | infirm, in order to make us worthy of his glory 03Buz5    28:10 | You saved us from every temptation and delusion 03Buz5    28:11 | not for the sake of our righteousness, for we have not 03Buz5    28:11 | sake of our righteousness, for we have not done any good 03Buz5    28:11 | you have spread out on us, we dare to ask you 03Buz5    28:11 | have spread out on us, we dare to ask you, a 03Buz5    28:15 | Having said, “ Our Father, who art in heaven 03Buz5    30:2 | The princes and naxarars spoke: “ We know now that our country 03Buz5    30:2 | spoke: “We know now that our country is lost. The blood 03Buz5    30:5 | God has forsaken and abandoned us, and we will be unable 03Buz5    30:5 | forsaken and abandoned us, and we will be unable to raise 03Buz5    30:5 | will be unable to raise our heads. I know that there 03Buz5    32:3 | ten other cities belong to us, so give them up. The 03Buz5    32:3 | of Edessa was built by our ancestors. If you don’t want 03Buz5    32:3 | disturbance, give them up. Otherwise, we will wage great warfare 03Buz5    33:1 | the princes asked: “What shall we do, how shall we act 03Buz5    33:1 | shall we do, how shall we act? Should we seek to 03Buz5    33:1 | how shall we act? Should we seek to avenge our king 03Buz5    33:1 | Should we seek to avenge our king or not 03Buz5    33:2 | they confirmed in discussion that: “ We cannot enter the service of 03Buz5    33:2 | the Byzantine emperor, nor can we make enemies of both of 03Buz5    33:2 | of both of them. But we cannot survive without the aid 03Buz5    33:3 | had happened was past. “Let us serve the Byzantine emperor and 03Buz5    37:16 | Varazdat, saying: “All the labors our azg had performed from the 03Buz5    37:16 | performed from the time of our ancestors in ancient times onward 03Buz5    37:16 | loyally done for you Arsacids. We gave our lives, living and 03Buz5    37:16 | for you Arsacids. We gave our lives, living and dying for 03Buz5    37:16 | dying for you. All of our first ancestors fell in battle 03Buz5    37:16 | battle for king Arshak, and we have always labored and worked 03Buz5    37:19 | We are not your servants but 03Buz5    37:19 | servants but your peers, and we are above you. For our 03Buz5    37:19 | we are above you. For our ancestors were kings of the 03Buz5    37:19 | among brothers, to avoid bloodshed, we left that land and to 03Buz5    37:19 | land and to find rest we stopped here in Armenia 03Buz5    37:20 | first Arsacid kings knew who we were and where we came 03Buz5    37:20 | who we were and where we came from. But you, since 03Buz5    37:50 | lord of Rhshtunik. Hamazaspean ordered us to dismount and guard him 03Buz5    38:18 | are they doing this to us 03Buz5    43:31 | that sorcerer Meruzhan has tricked us? I recognize a sign of 03Buz5    43:31 | many times during peace between us that we were in one 03Buz5    43:31 | during peace between us that we were in one place together 03Buz5    43:32 | at these identical emblems. Perhaps we can discover the sorcerer of 03Buz5    43:34 | are you going to deceive us and permit others to be 03Buz5    43:34 | be killed because of you? We have spotted you and today 03Buz5    43:34 | today you will not survive our hands. For today the Lord 03Buz5    43:34 | Lord has betrayed you into our hands 03Buz5    43:48 | they note: “He is, nonetheless, our brother.” Then they brought to 03Buz5    44:15 | lords of the land, for our women and children, for the 03Buz5    44:19 | patriarch Nerses was always urging us to do this. Every hour 03Buz6    1:8 | wealthy kingdom which is in our midst. First, we divide it 03Buz6    1:8 | is in our midst. First, we divide it into two, under 03Buz6    1:8 | under two Arsacid kings whom we installed. Later through them we 03Buz6    1:8 | we installed. Later through them we shall try to destroy and 03Buz6    1:8 | to raise their heads between us 03Buz6    9:2 | to him: “Lord bishop, bless us and the vineyard 03Buz6    9:4 | your body for unjustly cursing us 04Yegh1    1:22 | immediately fulfill one counsel of ours. Raise an army and gather 04Yegh1    1:23 | and as it seems to us in our religion, you will 04Yegh1    1:23 | it seems to us in our religion, you will rule over 04Yegh1    2:27 | Aryans, may the greeting of our benevolence be multiplied for you 04Yegh1    2:27 | for you. Be well, and we ourselves are well by the 04Yegh1    2:28 | Without causing you any trouble we marched into the land of 04Yegh1    2:28 | Greeks, and without warfare by our loving benevolence we subjected the 04Yegh1    2:28 | warfare by our loving benevolence we subjected the whole land to 04Yegh1    2:28 | subjected the whole land to us in servitude 04Yegh1    2:29 | immediately accomplish this command which we impose 04Yegh1    2:30 | We have decided in our infallible 04Yegh1    2:30 | We have decided in our infallible judgment to march to 04Yegh1    2:30 | empire of the Kushans to us with the help of the 04Yegh1    2:30 | without impediment gather cavalry before us and meet me in the 04Yegh2    1:8 | than most others—as indeed we see not only in ordinary 04Yegh2    1:13 | Although we are not permitted to censure 04Yegh2    1:13 | permitted to censure princes, yet we cannot praise the man who 04Yegh2    1:17 | mind: “Question, examine, see. Let us choose and hold which is 04Yegh2    2:28 | truth of the religion of our gods, I shall make you 04Yegh2    2:37 | impious ministers: “With what shall we repay the gods for this 04Yegh2    2:37 | one was able to oppose us in battle 04Yegh2    2:42 | who were coming eastward to us, but to block the way 04Yegh2    2:44 | and earth are witnesses to us that we were never tardy 04Yegh2    2:44 | are witnesses to us that we were never tardy in the 04Yegh2    2:44 | the king’s service, nor did we ever mingle cowardice with our 04Yegh2    2:44 | we ever mingle cowardice with our noble valor. These inflictions on 04Yegh2    2:44 | noble valor. These inflictions on us are without reason and merciless 04Yegh2    3:53 | many other ignominious torments, which we did not consider suitable to 04Yegh2    4:98 | and have been deprived of our perfect religion, they have brought 04Yegh2    4:99 | your lord has, especially because we have to give account for 04Yegh2    5:105 | is even worse than what we have just written, they preach 04Yegh2    5:107 | words are most incredible to us 04Yegh2    6:130 | From our ancestors we have retained the 04Yegh2    6:130 | From our ancestors we have retained the divinely-instituted 04Yegh2    6:130 | that in its extended peace we too may complete our lives 04Yegh2    6:130 | peace we too may complete our lives in well-being and 04Yegh2    6:131 | letter which you addressed to our land—in an earlier time 04Yegh2    6:133 | consider it reliable to hear our words, in many places of 04Yegh2    6:134 | But as for our religion—it is not obscure 04Yegh2    6:143 | benevolence was unable to prevent our wickedness, as indeed happened; but 04Yegh2    6:143 | wickedness, as indeed happened; but we have as judge the creative 04Yegh2    6:144 | the stone tablets and gave us a book containing the laws 04Yegh2    6:144 | peace and salvation, so that we might know the one God 04Yegh2    6:146 | good spirits, whom you and we call angels. If they wish 04Yegh2    7:155 | said about the birth of our Lord from the Holy Virgin 04Yegh2    8:177 | claim to be actually real— we no longer believe in fables 04Yegh2    8:182 | of learning, the two of us would go to irretrievable destruction 04Yegh2    8:183 | so study divine Scripture that we may escape those torments, scorn 04Yegh2    8:185 | heaven in revolt. Coming to our world, with treacherous words and 04Yegh2    8:194 | the true God, Creator of us all, whom you blaspheme with 04Yegh2    8:197 | But we acknowledge God in this fashion 04Yegh2    8:197 | fashion, and in the same we believe without doubting 04Yegh2    9:201 | But because we were unable to see the 04Yegh2    9:201 | he came and submitted to our humanity so that we might 04Yegh2    9:201 | to our humanity so that we might attain his divinity 04Yegh2    9:203 | and not a duality. Consequently, we acknowledge the divinity as one 04Yegh2    9:209 | faith no one can shake us, neither angels nor men, neither 04Yegh2    9:210 | All our possessions and properties are in 04Yegh2    9:210 | are in your hands and our bodies stand before you; do 04Yegh2    9:211 | If you leave us with this same faith, we 04Yegh2    9:211 | us with this same faith, we shall not exchange you for 04Yegh2    9:211 | earth, nor in heaven shall we exchange for another god Jesus 04Yegh2    9:212 | you ask further questions, behold we have given our entire bodies 04Yegh2    9:212 | questions, behold we have given our entire bodies into your hands 04Yegh2    9:213 | tortures from you, submission from us; the sword is yours, the 04Yegh2    9:213 | is yours, the necks are ours 04Yegh2    9:214 | We are no better than our 04Yegh2    9:214 | We are no better than our ancestors, who on behalf of 04Yegh2    9:215 | For if we were immortal and it was 04Yegh2    9:215 | and it was possible for us to die for the love 04Yegh2    9:215 | was immortal and so loved us that he accepted death in 04Yegh2    9:215 | order that by his death we might be saved from eternal 04Yegh2    9:216 | not spare his own immortality, we— since we become mortal by 04Yegh2    9:216 | his own immortality, we—since we become mortal by our own 04Yegh2    9:216 | since we become mortal by our own will—shall willingly die 04Yegh2    9:216 | that he may willingly endow us with his own immortality; we 04Yegh2    9:216 | us with his own immortality; we shall die as mortals so 04Yegh2    9:216 | so that he may accept our death as that of immortals 04Yegh2    9:217 | But do you ask us no further questions after all 04Yegh2    9:217 | this, for the covenant of our faith is not with a 04Yegh2    9:217 | not with a man that we may be deceived like children 04Yegh2    9:223 | who do not believe in our religion and have gone irrevocably 04Yegh2    10:251 | We beg you, noble sovereign, give 04Yegh2    10:251 | noble sovereign, give ear to our words and listen kindly to 04Yegh2    10:251 | and listen kindly to what we have to say 04Yegh2    11:252 | We remind you of the time 04Yegh2    11:252 | religion as that by which we still live today. Our fathers 04Yegh2    11:252 | which we still live today. Our fathers and great-grandfathers rendered 04Yegh2    11:253 | accession to your ancestral throne we have performed the same service 04Yegh2    11:256 | according to the custom of our ancestors, you also imposed taxes 04Yegh2    11:256 | you also imposed taxes. And we, in our loyalty to your 04Yegh2    11:256 | imposed taxes. And we, in our loyalty to your rule, did 04Yegh2    11:257 | anger been stirred up against us? Tell us the reasons for 04Yegh2    11:257 | stirred up against us? Tell us the reasons for the maltreatment 04Yegh2    11:257 | reasons for the maltreatment. Is our religion the cause of our 04Yegh2    11:257 | our religion the cause of our being without merit in your 04Yegh2    11:258 | have ignorantly gone astray from our true religion and have dishonored 04Yegh2    11:259 | you, will take vengeance from us 04Yegh2    11:261 | not say that again to us. For the church is not 04Yegh2    11:266 | manner you wish to treat us, do so. We are all 04Yegh2    11:266 | to treat us, do so. We are all ready for every 04Yegh2    11:267 | hear from each one of us more than the present reply 04Yegh2    12:277 | and said in their hearts: “ We have all offered our brothers 04Yegh2    12:277 | hearts: “We have all offered our brothers and sons and all 04Yegh2    12:277 | brothers and sons and all our dear ones and placed them 04Yegh2    12:277 | holy altar; receive, O Lord, our willing sacrifice and do not 04Yegh2    12:283 | as your eyes see what we have not yet done—now 04Yegh2    12:283 | yet done—now before you we pour out our requests 04Yegh2    12:283 | before you we pour out our requests 04Yegh2    12:284 | Receive, O Lord, our secret prayers and make us 04Yegh2    12:284 | our secret prayers and make us delight in your commands, so 04Yegh2    12:285 | desires of his impiety; lead us back with peaceful minds to 04Yegh2    13:312 | Everyone shall fulfill all that we have said for a period 04Yegh3    1:1 | ALTHOUGH we are unable to mention all 04Yegh3    1:1 | contingent in the army, yet we do not wish to remain 04Yegh3    1:1 | hide their cruel afflictions. But we shall give a summary so 04Yegh3    1:1 | give a summary so that we may join our voices to 04Yegh3    1:1 | so that we may join our voices to those who bitterly 04Yegh3    1:1 | to those who bitterly lamented us, and so that you too 04Yegh3    1:1 | tears over the misfortune of our nation 04Yegh3    1:24 | You were our strong wall of refuge; when 04Yegh3    1:24 | of refuge; when danger approached, we went to you for safety 04Yegh3    1:25 | You were our boast against the enemies of 04Yegh3    1:25 | truth; but now you are our shame before those same enemies 04Yegh3    2:26 | your true faith, they spared us a little; but now because 04Yegh3    2:26 | because of you they judge us mercilessly 04Yegh3    2:50 | themselves were to come to our aid, it would be impossible 04Yegh3    3:53 | I had heard from our ancestors that in the days 04Yegh3    3:53 | who were the teachers of our religion enjoined the king to 04Yegh3    3:58 | We had no idea of the 04Yegh3    3:58 | their wealth, but this much we truly understood—that the whole 04Yegh3    3:65 | for at the agitation of our land the West had been 04Yegh3    3:66 | This we know by report. But what 04Yegh3    3:68 | If we had not hastened to take 04Yegh3    3:68 | allowed a single one of us to escape 04Yegh3    3:71 | blood they would not allow us to lay hands on their 04Yegh3    4:78 | are true. What at first, we did not understand, you saw 04Yegh3    4:78 | understand, you saw, and now we regret it greatly 04Yegh3    4:83 | winter quarters in Armenia. When we have them to hand there 04Yegh3    4:84 | to my suggestion. For if we use force against this country 04Yegh3    4:84 | it will be destroyed, and we too shall not escape damage 04Yegh3    4:99 | raised their voices and note: “ We beg you all by this 04Yegh3    4:99 | impious crimes, first cut off our heads and then seize the 04Yegh3    5:101 | of witness from men; if we have intentionally strayed from you 04Yegh3    5:101 | know that well. Today judge us according to our sins 04Yegh3    5:101 | Today judge us according to our sins 04Yegh3    5:102 | But if we stand firm in the covenant 04Yegh3    5:102 | Holy Gospel, you Lord be our helper today and give the 04Yegh3    5:102 | the enemies of truth into our hands that we may deal 04Yegh3    5:102 | truth into our hands that we may deal with them according 04Yegh3    5:102 | deal with them according to our will 04Yegh3    5:114 | people cried out in thanks: “ We are ready for persecution and 04Yegh3    5:114 | of the holy churches which our forefathers entrusted to us by 04Yegh3    5:114 | which our forefathers entrusted to us by the power of the 04Yegh3    5:114 | power of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby we 04Yegh3    5:114 | our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby we were reborn to the one 04Yegh3    5:114 | Jesus. In the same fashion we wish to renew ourselves by 04Yegh3    5:115 | For we recognize the Holy Gospel as 04Yegh3    5:115 | recognize the Holy Gospel as our Father, and the apostolic Catholic 04Yegh3    5:115 | no evil partition come between us to separate us from her 04Yegh3    5:115 | come between us to separate us from her 04Yegh3    5:122 | acclamation was continuously voiced: “Let us only die valiantly, let us 04Yegh3    5:122 | us only die valiantly, let us merely inherit fame and spirit 04Yegh3    5:122 | Christ may be alive in us; it is for him easy 04Yegh3    5:122 | renew again from dust both us and all those who fell 04Yegh3    6:137 | Huns has returned and reached our land, and many more cavalry 04Yegh3    6:138 | do not do this willingly, we have a command to build 04Yegh3    6:143 | the illustrious emperor Theodosius—may our greeting be upon you and 04Yegh3    6:144 | According to our infallible records concerning your courageous 04Yegh3    6:146 | For that reason, our ancestor Tiridates remembered your earlier 04Yegh3    6:146 | wish to wrest away from us 04Yegh3    6:147 | valor, some of their commands we have opposed and many more 04Yegh3    6:147 | have opposed and many more we are ready to continue opposing 04Yegh3    6:148 | We have chosen death in piety 04Yegh3    6:148 | you extend further help to us, we will have gained a 04Yegh3    6:148 | extend further help to us, we will have gained a second 04Yegh3    7:156 | their former pact and note: “ We are ready to kill and 04Yegh3    8:181 | Judge, Lord, those who judge us; fight with those who fight 04Yegh3    8:181 | with those who fight against us; with your arms and shield 04Yegh3    8:181 | your arms and shield help us. Shake and make tremble the 04Yegh3    8:183 | for acquiring transitory grandeur do we make this prayer, but in 04Yegh3    8:184 | We are ready to die for 04Yegh3    8:184 | but if it happens that we slaughter them, we shall be 04Yegh3    8:184 | happens that we slaughter them, we shall be avengers of the 04Yegh3    9:217 | prayers might beg God that “ we might conclude our enterprise as 04Yegh3    9:217 | God that “we might conclude our enterprise as we have begun 04Yegh3    9:217 | might conclude our enterprise as we have begun it 04Yegh3    10:229 | measure have they seemed to us superior to all other sects 04Yegh3    10:230 | and on a par with our Mazdean religion, just as it 04Yegh3    10:230 | respected in the time of our ancestors—as I myself remember 04Yegh3    10:236 | While we were on a distant campaign 04Yegh3    10:236 | on a distant campaign, before we had brought any military operation 04Yegh3    10:240 | or afflict the minds of us all. Perhaps there may be 04Yegh3    11:251 | purchased, that anyone has seized, we have ordered to be returned 04Yegh3    11:253 | only do not withdraw from our service 04Yegh3    11:258 | though he is aware of our indissoluble unity, he is impudent 04Yegh3    11:258 | and shameless nonetheless; by harassing us he intends to weaken our 04Yegh3    11:258 | us he intends to weaken our courage 04Yegh3    11:259 | But should we believe his inconsistent order? What 04Yegh3    11:259 | inconsistent order? What benevolence have we seen directed to all the 04Yegh3    11:262 | However, we live by God’s power and 04Yegh3    11:262 | Holy Virgin the flesh of our nature, and by uniting it 04Yegh3    11:262 | own body the sufferings of our sins. In that same body 04Yegh3    11:262 | of the power. The same we believe to be the true 04Yegh3    11:262 | be the true God, and we wait for him to come 04Yegh3    11:263 | We shall not be deceived like 04Yegh3    11:263 | tricked like the witless; rather, we are ready for every test 04Yegh3    11:264 | We beseech God and ceaselessly beg 04Yegh3    11:264 | beg his great mercy that we may complete what we have 04Yegh3    11:264 | that we may complete what we have begun with valor and 04Yegh3    11:265 | oppose God and pointlessly kill us despite all our services 04Yegh3    11:265 | pointlessly kill us despite all our services 04Yegh3    11:266 | earth with its inhabitants bear us witness that we have not 04Yegh3    11:266 | inhabitants bear us witness that we have not failed in our 04Yegh3    11:266 | we have not failed in our duty even in our thoughts 04Yegh3    11:266 | in our duty even in our thoughts. Yet instead of rendering 04Yegh3    11:266 | thoughts. Yet instead of rendering us gifts and blessings you wish 04Yegh3    11:266 | blessings you wish to deprive us of the true life, which 04Yegh3    11:267 | Should we now trust his unworthy mouth 04Yegh3    11:268 | We are unable today suddenly to 04Yegh3    11:269 | out all his wickedness on us 04Yegh3    11:270 | We do not believe him, nor 04Yegh3    11:270 | not believe him, nor shall we accept his false command 04Yegh4    1:1 | to describe the afflictions of our nation which were cruelly inflicted 04Yegh4    1:1 | which were cruelly inflicted upon us by the foreign enemies of 04Yegh4    1:1 | They were few who struck us but very many struck by 04Yegh4    1:1 | but very many struck by us, for we were still united 04Yegh4    1:1 | many struck by us, for we were still united and agreed 04Yegh4    1:2 | to the eyes of outsiders our unanimity seemed imposing, so they 04Yegh4    1:2 | they were unable to resist us in two or three places 04Yegh4    1:6 | But here our lament is not only for 04Yegh4    3:58 | that “if the victory is ours, I shall bestow on these 04Yegh5    1:4 | So, did we observe with our own eyes 04Yegh5    1:4 | So, did we observe with our own eyes at that time 04Yegh5    1:14 | participated in many battles. Sometimes we have valiantly beaten the enemy 04Yegh5    1:14 | and sometimes they have defeated us. More often, though, we have 04Yegh5    1:14 | defeated us. More often, though, we have been the victors than 04Yegh5    1:15 | were for earthly distinction, as we fought at the command of 04Yegh5    1:17 | So now we have many wounds and scars 04Yegh5    1:17 | many wounds and scars on our bodies, and many acts of 04Yegh5    1:17 | have been performed for which we received great rewards 04Yegh5    1:19 | Now if we accomplished these deeds of valor 04Yegh5    1:19 | commander, how much more will we do for our immortal king 04Yegh5    1:19 | more will we do for our immortal king, who is Lord 04Yegh5    1:20 | a very advanced age, yet we would still have to leave 04Yegh5    1:20 | the living God, from whom we shall be separated no more 04Yegh5    1:22 | the Lord puts victory in our grasp, we shall destroy their 04Yegh5    1:22 | puts victory in our grasp, we shall destroy their power so 04Yegh5    1:22 | time has come to end our lives in this battle with 04Yegh5    1:22 | with a holy death, let us accept it with joyful hearts 04Yegh5    1:22 | with joyful hearts—provided only we do not mingle cowardice with 04Yegh5    1:23 | but the Lord himself bears us witness how in our secret 04Yegh5    1:23 | bears us witness how in our secret thoughts we remained united 04Yegh5    1:23 | how in our secret thoughts we remained united with him 04Yegh5    1:24 | You yourselves well know how we sought means of comforting our 04Yegh5    1:24 | we sought means of comforting our friends who were in great 04Yegh5    1:24 | in great tribulation, so that we might struggle together against the 04Yegh5    1:24 | against the impious prince for our ancestral and divinely-bestowed religion 04Yegh5    1:25 | And since we were unable to help them 04Yegh5    1:25 | the sake of human love we exchange God for men 04Yegh5    2:26 | the Lord himself has helped us with his great power in 04Yegh5    2:26 | or three battles so that we acquired the repute of valor 04Yegh5    2:27 | natural custom on speaking with us 04Yegh5    2:29 | He who supposed that we put on Christianity like a 04Yegh5    2:30 | For the foundations of our Christianity are set on the 04Yegh5    2:31 | Although in the body we are on earth, yet by 04Yegh5    2:31 | on earth, yet by faith we are established in heaven where 04Yegh5    2:32 | Stand firm in our sure general, who will never 04Yegh5    2:33 | that God has worked through us, in which God’s power is 04Yegh5    2:34 | sake of the divine religion we have gained glory for ourselves 04Yegh5    2:34 | bequeathed the valiant name of our family to the church—and 04Yegh5    2:34 | preserved for each one of us according to the willingness of 04Yegh5    2:34 | deeds—how much more would we gain if we were to 04Yegh5    2:34 | more would we gain if we were to die for the 04Yegh5    2:34 | for the great witness of our Lord Jesus Christ, which even 04Yegh5    2:35 | benevolent Lord, this has befallen us not from any just deeds 04Yegh5    2:35 | from any just deeds of our own but from the liberal 04Yegh5    2:36 | injunction of this saying. As we appeared to men most impious 04Yegh5    2:36 | impious, in double measure shall we appear the most righteous to 04Yegh5    2:37 | day when men heard that we were implicated in an impious 04Yegh5    2:37 | church and even more among our dear ones 04Yegh5    2:38 | Even our comrades in their anger threatened 04Yegh5    2:38 | comrades in their anger threatened us with the sword, wishing to 04Yegh5    2:38 | inflict a bitter death on us, and our servants fled from 04Yegh5    2:38 | bitter death on us, and our servants fled from us in 04Yegh5    2:38 | and our servants fled from us in horror 04Yegh5    2:39 | had heard the repute of our Christianity, since they were unaware 04Yegh5    2:39 | since they were unaware of our intentions lamented and bewailed us 04Yegh5    2:39 | our intentions lamented and bewailed us unceasingly, in their ignorance heaping 04Yegh5    2:39 | ignorance heaping many blasphemies on us 04Yegh5    2:40 | heaven turned their faces from us so as not to look 04Yegh5    2:40 | as not to look on us with saddened countenance 04Yegh5    2:41 | the time has come for us to cast off every suspicion 04Yegh5    2:42 | Then we were afflicted in soul and 04Yegh5    2:42 | like grieving mourners. But today we are joyful, happy, and yet 04Yegh5    2:42 | both respects at once, for we see the benevolent Lord with 04Yegh5    2:42 | see the benevolent Lord with us in the lead. Our commander 04Yegh5    2:42 | with us in the lead. Our commander is no man but 04Yegh5    2:43 | sign of doubt. Long ago we rejected doubt, likewise let fear 04Yegh5    2:43 | likewise let fear flee from our minds and thoughts 04Yegh5    3:58 | with the false priests whom we mentioned above, through them claiming 04Yegh5    3:61 | You all remember our forefathers who lived before the 04Yegh5    3:62 | when the Evil One caused our expulsion from the divine garden 04Yegh5    3:62 | expulsion from the divine garden, we were exposed to merciless condemnation 04Yegh5    3:62 | exposed to merciless condemnation for our sins of transgression which we 04Yegh5    3:62 | our sins of transgression which we had unworthily committed in our 04Yegh5    3:62 | we had unworthily committed in our desire for freedom. We brought 04Yegh5    3:62 | in our desire for freedom. We brought upon ourselves the force 04Yegh5    3:63 | became instruments of torture for us, taking vengeance on our transgressions 04Yegh5    3:63 | for us, taking vengeance on our transgressions without mitigation 04Yegh5    3:66 | is destroyed by death, let us not fear to share Christ’s 04Yegh5    3:66 | Christ’s death; for with whom we die, with the same we 04Yegh5    3:66 | we die, with the same we shall also live 04Yegh5    3:71 | God, how much more should we— who were eyewitnesses and greatly 04Yegh5    3:72 | his life in death for our sins and absolved us from 04Yegh5    3:72 | for our sins and absolved us from the insupportable condemnation, let 04Yegh5    3:72 | from the insupportable condemnation, let us too lay down our lives 04Yegh5    3:72 | let us too lay down our lives in death for his 04Yegh5    3:72 | for his immortal power, lest we be inferior to those zealous 04Yegh5    4:86 | As we know all this, brethren, let 04Yegh5    4:86 | know all this, brethren, let us not slacken or be dispirited 04Yegh5    4:86 | heart and constant faith let us eagerly attack the enemy who 04Yegh5    4:86 | who has risen up against us 04Yegh5    4:87 | Our hope appears to us as 04Yegh5    4:87 | Our hope appears to us as double: if we die 04Yegh5    4:87 | to us as double: if we die, we shall live; and 04Yegh5    4:87 | as double: if we die, we shall live; and if we 04Yegh5    4:87 | we shall live; and if we put to death, the same 04Yegh5    4:87 | the same life lies before us 04Yegh5    4:88 | Let us recall the Apostle’s saying: ’Instead 04Yegh5    4:91 | to such a height let us not fall back to earth 04Yegh5    4:91 | back to earth, but let us make a firm stand here 04Yegh5    4:92 | Although we may look down on the 04Yegh5    4:92 | lower region of this earth, we see it filled with all 04Yegh5    4:93 | and thirst in accordance with our natural needs 04Yegh5    4:95 | But those who seem to us to have successfully obtained wealth 04Yegh5    5:102 | Let us then abandon the dark thoughts 04Yegh5    5:102 | of these erring ones. Let us reckon them as more unfortunate 04Yegh5    5:103 | But since we have seen the heavenly light 04Yegh5    5:103 | not the outer darkness befall us 04Yegh5    5:105 | The leader of our salvation is here. Here he 04Yegh5    5:110 | Moreover, we see that you have this 04Yegh5    5:114 | army cried out, saying: “May our death equal the death of 04Yegh5    5:114 | just and the shedding of our blood that of the blood 04Yegh5    5:114 | May God be pleased with our willing sacrifice and not deliver 04Yegh6    1:8 | They all cried out, saying: “ We thank you, our Lord God 04Yegh6    1:8 | out, saying: “We thank you, our Lord God, that while the 04Yegh6    1:8 | and undefiled, you have made us worthy of your heavenly calling 04Yegh6    1:9 | May our death equal the death of 04Yegh6    1:9 | of the brave heroes, and our blood be mingled with the 04Yegh6    1:15 | another, saying: “What need have we of life in this transitory 04Yegh6    1:15 | transitory world, or why should we see the sun after the 04Yegh6    1:15 | sun after the death of our friends 04Yegh6    1:16 | For even if our brave heroes fell in the 04Yegh6    1:16 | and food for animals, and our honorable nobles were brought down 04Yegh6    1:16 | are suffering grievously, and all our delicate Armenian women have fallen 04Yegh6    1:16 | dangerous afflictions and terrible deprivations— we shall not obey your deceitful 04Yegh6    2:30 | But just as we have often shown the impious 04Yegh6    5:104 | calamities: all the tortures which we endured, the great losses inflicted 04Yegh6    5:121 | able to see that in us 04Yegh6    5:122 | as you wish; why ask us 04Yegh6    6:141 | They consoled one another, saying: “ We fought bravely, let us endure 04Yegh6    6:141 | saying: “We fought bravely, let us endure even more patiently 04Yegh6    6:142 | We have learned from our holy 04Yegh6    6:142 | We have learned from our holy fathers that the chief 04Yegh6    6:144 | this is the case, let us beg God only that we 04Yegh6    6:144 | us beg God only that we may be able to endure 04Yegh6    6:144 | will provide the means for our salvation 04Yegh6    6:145 | We have heard of the sentence 04Yegh6    6:147 | Now there is our colleague who separated from us 04Yegh6    6:147 | our colleague who separated from us at the beginning—behold, he 04Yegh6    6:150 | encouraged each other, saying: “Since we know this, brethren, let us 04Yegh6    6:150 | we know this, brethren, let us not fear the godless nation 04Yegh6    6:150 | to their own destruction. But we shall call on the name 04Yegh6    7:155 | treasure in the tombs of our ancestors 04Yegh7    1:14 | king and note: “Noble king, we know from our religion that 04Yegh7    1:14 | Noble king, we know from our religion that no man can 04Yegh7    1:14 | gods have become angry with us because you have kept the 04Yegh7    1:14 | Christians, who are opposed to our religion, alive until today 04Yegh7    1:23 | if they had strayed “from our great knowledge” through ignorance 04Yegh7    2:32 | prison has been entrusted to us, but we do not remember 04Yegh7    2:32 | been entrusted to us, but we do not remember any prisoner 04Yegh7    2:33 | Now we say to you: If you 04Yegh7    2:34 | Furthermore, we are awestruck and very fearful 04Yegh7    2:34 | awestruck and very fearful when we see such unbearable afflictions 04Yegh7    2:37 | What is this great miracle? Our gods then have descended into 04Yegh7    2:43 | nor have I heard from our ancestors 04Yegh7    2:47 | not be slow, for even we pleaded with him about your 04Yegh7    2:48 | about the future coming of our Lord or about the wonderful 04Yegh7    2:48 | mansions that are reserved for us in readiness from the beginning 04Yegh7    2:48 | readiness from the beginning? Therefore, we easily endure this great tribulation 04Yegh7    2:48 | love of that hope which we shall see 04Yegh7    2:49 | for the great tribulation of our bodies. But we are not 04Yegh7    2:49 | tribulation of our bodies. But we are not at all fatigued 04Yegh7    2:50 | But we, for love of our Christ 04Yegh7    2:50 | But we, for love of our Christ, greatly rejoice at this 04Yegh7    2:50 | greatly rejoice at this, and we even consider it to be 04Yegh7    2:50 | a perfect favor so that we may inherit eternal blessings by 04Yegh7    3:51 | If we were to desire buildings, we 04Yegh7    3:51 | we were to desire buildings, we have mansions in heaven made 04Yegh7    3:52 | Therefore, you are mercilessly judging us, vainly and unjustly and without 04Yegh7    3:52 | unjustly and without guilt on our part 04Yegh7    3:53 | But our King is liberal and beneficent 04Yegh7    3:54 | have ordered to be provided us— we had the power back 04Yegh7    3:54 | ordered to be provided us— we had the power back in 04Yegh7    3:54 | had the power back in our own country not to fall 04Yegh7    3:54 | escaped such troubles. But as we came willingly and readily, although 04Yegh7    3:54 | came willingly and readily, although we knew the perils of our 04Yegh7    3:54 | we knew the perils of our danger and yet did not 04Yegh7    3:54 | not fear such hardships, likewise we also wish that you bring 04Yegh7    3:54 | bring even heavier afflictions upon us until your malice against us 04Yegh7    3:54 | us until your malice against us has been sated 04Yegh7    3:55 | For if our God, who is Creator of 04Yegh7    3:55 | of the Father’s throne, granted us heavenly power so that conformably 04Yegh7    3:55 | that conformably with his immortality we too in our mortal bodies 04Yegh7    3:55 | his immortality we too in our mortal bodies may be able 04Yegh7    3:55 | if he no longer considers our death as mortal but requites 04Yegh7    3:55 | as mortal but requites to us as immortals the rewards of 04Yegh7    3:55 | as immortals the rewards of our labors—then we count as 04Yegh7    3:55 | rewards of our labors—then we count as insignificant these torments 04Yegh7    3:64 | they may lead and bring us to your holy mountain and 04Yegh7    3:66 | the cause of life for us and himself 04Yegh7    3:67 | We thank you, God, we thank 04Yegh7    3:67 | We thank you, God, we thank you and join the 04Yegh7    3:67 | prophet in saying: ’Not to us, Lord, not to us but 04Yegh7    3:67 | to us, Lord, not to us but to your name give 04Yegh7    4:77 | for these also to join our company. For we have been 04Yegh7    4:77 | to join our company. For we have been waiting for them 04Yegh7    4:78 | But one whom we did not expect has come 04Yegh7    4:78 | has come, presented himself, joined us and become as one of 04Yegh7    4:81 | up and prayed, saying: “‘Lord, our Lord, how marvelous is your 04Yegh7    4:82 | Henceforth we shall no longer say: ’I 04Yegh7    4:86 | holy vision, and blessed are we for his approaching us, because 04Yegh7    4:86 | are we for his approaching us, because through him we have 04Yegh7    4:86 | approaching us, because through him we have learned for sure that 04Yegh7    4:88 | gate of your mercy to us who from our childhood have 04Yegh7    4:88 | mercy to us who from our childhood have desired to share 04Yegh7    4:89 | We make this newly found creature 04Yegh7    4:89 | of yours an intercessor for us; let not the ship of 04Yegh7    4:89 | let not the ship of our faith sink in the billowing 04Yegh7    4:94 | body and expiatory blood of our Lord Jesus Christ 04Yegh7    5:108 | for by this time tomorrow we shall have forgotten all the 04Yegh7    5:108 | all the tribulations and torments we have endured 04Yegh7    5:109 | In return for our small travail we shall receive 04Yegh7    5:109 | return for our small travail we shall receive manifold relief; instead 04Yegh7    5:109 | instead of this gloomy prison we shall enter the heavenly city 04Yegh7    5:110 | the same Lord who accords us success in receiving that same 04Yegh7    5:110 | medal for the salvation of our souls and the glory of 04Yegh7    5:111 | brother at the head of our table, so he will be 04Yegh7    5:112 | For behold, the enemy of our lives who crowns the holy 04Yegh7    5:112 | arrived and is close upon us 04Yegh7    5:115 | world took place because of our sins 04Yegh7    5:122 | day the hour coming upon us 04Yegh7    5:125 | in me the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be 04Yegh7    6:126 | you, king, since you gave us food of joy. Fill us 04Yegh7    6:126 | us food of joy. Fill us with the Holy Spirit, that 04Yegh7    6:126 | with the Holy Spirit, that we may be found pleasing before 04Yegh7    6:129 | Holy Spirit: “Lest any of us,” they said, “weakening and abandoning 04Yegh7    6:129 | they said, “weakening and abandoning our common unity, become prey for 04Yegh7    6:130 | you orphaned nor remove from us his mercy because of our 04Yegh7    6:130 | us his mercy because of our faith in Christ. Through the 04Yegh7    6:130 | Christ. Through the many intercessors we have with him, the flame 04Yegh7    6:133 | of the haughty come upon us, or the hands of sinners 04Yegh7    6:133 | the hands of sinners make us tremble 04Yegh7    6:144 | men be confused and abandon our sure religion 04Yegh7    6:145 | find people saying that while we were desiring to subject others 04Yegh7    6:145 | to subject others, on them we were unable to have any 04Yegh7    6:145 | any effect, but teachers of our own religion were led astray 04Yegh7    6:146 | is worst of all for us, it was not some insignificant 04Yegh7    6:147 | If we enter into a debate with 04Yegh7    6:147 | land perhaps, he will destroy our religion, shattering it from the 04Yegh7    6:148 | But if we condemn him with other criminals 04Yegh7    6:148 | dishonor will be brought on our religion 04Yegh7    6:150 | only a minor disgrace for us in the eyes of all 04Yegh7    6:150 | to magi and chief-magi, we ourselves will become the destroyers 04Yegh7    6:150 | will become the destroyers of our religion 04Yegh7    7:153 | they overthrow the religion of our land 04Yegh7    7:155 | tribunal outside the camp, as we said, twelve leagues distant 04Yegh7    7:167 | asked: “Who are you among us?”— neither from among the lords 04Yegh7    7:172 | seemed to the nobles that “ we have softened their obstinacy and 04Yegh7    7:172 | their stubborn recalcitrance; now whatever we say, they will obey our 04Yegh7    7:172 | we say, they will obey our words, do the king’s will 04Yegh7    8:179 | for his great knowledge of our rites, and who was perfectly 04Yegh7    8:179 | was perfectly versed in all our religion and beloved of all 04Yegh7    8:180 | own foster brother because of our honorable religion, how much less 04Yegh7    8:181 | as the great Zoroaster taught us 04Yegh7    8:183 | Sahak interpret, spoke: “How could we obey your equivocal orders? Behold 04Yegh7    8:184 | Do not talk to us as if we were children 04Yegh7    8:184 | talk to us as if we were children, for we are 04Yegh7    8:184 | if we were children, for we are grown up and not 04Yegh7    8:186 | Now you fixed on us the blame for the ruin 04Yegh7    8:186 | blame for the ruin of our country and the losses of 04Yegh7    8:186 | losses of the royal army. Our religion does not so teach 04Yegh7    8:186 | religion does not so teach us but enjoins us very strictly 04Yegh7    8:186 | so teach us but enjoins us very strictly to honor earthly 04Yegh7    8:186 | to respect them with all our strength, not as some insignificant 04Yegh7    8:186 | but to serve them as we serve the true God. And 04Yegh7    8:186 | the true God. And if we suffer any wrong from them 04Yegh7    8:186 | from them, he has promised us the kingdom of heaven in 04Yegh7    8:187 | Not only are we obliged to render them devoted 04Yegh7    8:187 | for love of the king we must go so far as 04Yegh7    8:187 | far as to lay down our lives 04Yegh7    8:188 | Just as on earth we do not have the power 04Yegh7    8:188 | another lord, so in heaven we have no power to change 04Yegh7    8:188 | have no power to change our true God for another, as 04Yegh7    8:192 | You have singled us out from among many noble 04Yegh7    8:192 | and you wish to destroy our firm convictions by stealth. We 04Yegh7    8:192 | our firm convictions by stealth. We are not alone as you 04Yegh7    8:192 | is no empty place where our king, Christ, is not present 04Yegh7    8:193 | For the soldiers of our country, who had become disciples 04Yegh7    8:193 | become disciples of Christ through us, trampled underfoot the fearsome commands 04Yegh7    8:195 | All of them preceded us to the kingdom of God 04Yegh7    8:199 | Therefore, we are long-suffering with regard 04Yegh7    8:199 | regard to your ignorance, because we do not hate men like 04Yegh7    8:200 | selves and do not taint us against our will with your 04Yegh7    8:200 | do not taint us against our will with your blood 04Yegh7    9:203 | fight each other, how shall we— who are much humbler than 04Yegh7    9:204 | water and fire so that we may learn concord from them 04Yegh7    9:212 | the use and enjoyment of us below 04Yegh7    9:214 | established for the sake of our sustenance, so God has given 04Yegh7    9:214 | sustenance, so God has given us this sun to provide light 04Yegh7    9:218 | teaching, do not suppose that we shall do likewise; for the 04Yegh7    9:218 | likewise; for the eyes of our minds are open and we 04Yegh7    9:218 | our minds are open and we see clearly 04Yegh7    9:219 | the eyes of the body we see Creation and understand that 04Yegh7    9:221 | And because he saw us in great ignorance and pitied 04Yegh7    9:221 | in great ignorance and pitied our despair—in which, like you 04Yegh7    9:221 | despair—in which, like you, we once thought visible things were 04Yegh7    9:221 | things were the Creator and we used to commit all sorts 04Yegh7    9:221 | a human being, and taught us his invisible divinity 04Yegh7    9:223 | same darkness and still torment us 04Yegh7    9:224 | We are ready to die following 04Yegh7    9:224 | die following the example of our Lord. As and however you 04Yegh7    10:238 | paid, and you appropriately honored us for these white hairs 04Yegh7    10:241 | But he does not seduce us like some stranger or lead 04Yegh7    10:241 | like some stranger or lead us astray like some deceiving trickster 04Yegh7    10:241 | deceiving trickster; rather he loves us greatly 04Yegh7    10:242 | Since our mother church which bore us 04Yegh7    10:242 | our mother church which bore us is one, and one our 04Yegh7    10:242 | us is one, and one our father the Holy Spirit who 04Yegh7    10:242 | the Holy Spirit who begat us, how could the children of 04Yegh7    10:243 | to be seduction has been our own same thought by day 04Yegh7    10:243 | by day and night—that we might preserve the unity of 04Yegh7    10:243 | might preserve the unity of our lives unbroken 04Yegh7    10:244 | body, even more so are we all. For there is no 04Yegh7    10:247 | to his own soul; for we are not masters of ourselves 04Yegh7    10:247 | who will seek accounting from us both for foreigners and for 04Yegh7    10:247 | both for foreigners and for our countrymen 04Yegh7    10:249 | But we cannot transgress the command of 04Yegh7    10:249 | cannot transgress the command of our King, nor are we able 04Yegh7    10:249 | of our King, nor are we able to exchange our eternal 04Yegh7    10:249 | are we able to exchange our eternal life for the corruptible 04Yegh7    11:254 | which surpass their capacities. For we are all mortal, both he 04Yegh7    11:260 | incurable disease. Yet you blame us for bodily pains which are 04Yegh7    11:260 | pains which are not of our own free choosing but (have 04Yegh7    11:260 | free choosing but (have affected us) as happens to the bodily 04Yegh7    11:262 | his second birth he begat us into health, painless and unwounded 04Yegh7    11:262 | his secret scourging; he rendered us unblemished and unspotted in soul 04Yegh7    11:262 | in soul and body that we might become companions of the 04Yegh7    11:262 | the angels and soldiers of our heavenly King 04Yegh7    11:263 | even wish to learn from us but you still desire to 04Yegh7    11:263 | you still desire to mislead us. That is impossible, it will 04Yegh7    11:266 | of his flesh saying: ’If we became participants in the likeness 04Yegh7    11:266 | death, how much more will we participate in his Resurrection.’ 04Yegh7    11:267 | you, who have power over us, judge us in accordance with 04Yegh7    11:267 | have power over us, judge us in accordance with your evil 04Yegh7    11:268 | We are not at all fearful 04Yegh7    11:268 | and frightening threats, nor do we fear the cruel death which 04Yegh7    11:268 | are about to inflict on us 04Yegh7    12:286 | Now if our Architect united the indissolubility of 04Yegh7    12:297 | ’We do not know. But this 04Yegh7    12:297 | not know. But this much we understand, that it is the 04Yegh7    12:297 | it is the custom of our ancestors and the strict command 04Yegh7    12:299 | They all said in unison: ’We do not recognize it as 04Yegh7    12:300 | Our hands have become calloused from 04Yegh7    12:300 | calloused from the axe and our backs worn from carrying wood 04Yegh7    12:300 | backs worn from carrying wood. Our eyes are bleary with tears 04Yegh7    12:300 | acridity of its smoke, and our faces are sooty from the 04Yegh7    13:301 | Even if we give it much nourishment, it 04Yegh7    13:301 | is greatly hungry; and if we give none at all, it 04Yegh7    13:301 | it goes out completely. If we approach and worship, it burns 04Yegh7    13:301 | approach and worship, it burns us; but if we do not 04Yegh7    13:301 | it burns us; but if we do not come near at 04Yegh7    13:302 | Such is the extent of our comprehension of its nature.’ 04Yegh7    13:304 | saying: ’Why do you question us merely for the sake of 04Yegh7    13:304 | at the facts before you: our legislators are only blind in 04Yegh7    13:304 | blind in their minds; but our king is blind in one 04Yegh7    13:311 | virtuous ones, the hour of our martyrdom has arrived. Shut the 04Yegh7    13:311 | and you will see straightaway our hope, Christ 04Yegh7    13:319 | are superior in rank to us all 04Yegh7    13:320 | out: “Lord Jesus, receive all our souls and join us to 04Yegh7    13:320 | all our souls and join us to the company of your 04Yegh7    14:334 | the man from Khuzhastan whom we mentioned above remained there with 04Yegh7    14:341 | to one another: “What are we to do? How shall we 04Yegh7    14:341 | we to do? How shall we deal with the inexplicable sect 04Yegh7    14:342 | Even if we say all that of them 04Yegh7    14:342 | brash men, still what are we to do, since all the 04Yegh7    14:344 | For our servants are not liars; we 04Yegh7    14:344 | our servants are not liars; we have been assured of their 04Yegh7    14:346 | were tormented by a demon we know were not ill at 04Yegh7    14:347 | If we keep silent there will be 04Yegh7    14:347 | there will be suspicion on us and our persons. But if 04Yegh7    14:347 | be suspicion on us and our persons. But if we bring 04Yegh7    14:347 | and our persons. But if we bring them before the king 04Yegh7    14:347 | may occur some ruin for our religion 04Yegh7    14:349 | that investigation will be for us magi. Do not worry; do 04Yegh7    15:355 | saints in secret, repeated to us whatever has been said about 04Yegh8    1:6 | and he Abraham. But in our spiritual rank we are servants 04Yegh8    1:6 | But in our spiritual rank we are servants of Christ and 04Yegh8    1:8 | you should have learned from our teachers, because they were not 04Yegh8    1:8 | likewise servants; some were like us and others of superior station 04Yegh8    1:8 | and others of superior station. We came with those who nourished 04Yegh8    1:8 | those who nourished and instructed us 04Yegh8    1:9 | For we have a command from our 04Yegh8    1:9 | we have a command from our divinely-given religion to love 04Yegh8    1:14 | position is not unjust, nor ours false. The guilty noble should 04Yegh8    1:16 | If our teachers had been guilty toward 04Yegh8    1:16 | the king in some way, we would have acted in similar 04Yegh8    1:16 | in similar fashion toward them; we would not have gone near 04Yegh8    1:16 | them at home, nor would we have followed them abroad 04Yegh8    1:17 | no reason and unjustly, so we shall revere even more their 04Yegh8    1:21 | note: “That is not only our responsibility but (occurred) in regular 04Yegh8    1:23 | the sun and perform what our religion demands 04Yegh8    2:26 | what respect did you regard us as inferior to our fathers 04Yegh8    2:26 | regard us as inferior to our fathers? Do you not wish 04Yegh8    2:26 | you not wish to test us by words? But make a 04Yegh8    2:26 | review of your wickedness and our goodness, and your father Satan 04Yegh8    2:26 | to shame—not only by us who are the more perfect 04Yegh8    2:29 | speak again, saying: “This indignity we regard as minor, and the 04Yegh8    2:29 | love of God in which our spiritual fathers were martyred 04Yegh8    2:30 | carry out the same on us 04Yegh8    2:31 | very wicked to you, reckon ours doubly so; for they gave 04Yegh8    2:31 | gave orders in words, but we brought them to fruition by 04Yegh8    2:35 | began to offer supplications, saying: “ We beg you, valiant soldier of 04Yegh8    2:35 | of the king, either put us to death like our fathers 04Yegh8    2:35 | put us to death like our fathers, or inflict your punishments 04Yegh8    2:36 | For behold our ears have received a heavenly 04Yegh8    2:36 | received a heavenly healing and our noses are still in place 04Yegh8    2:36 | these tortures. Do not deprive us of half that heavenly blessing 04Yegh8    2:37 | Sanctify our bodies by dragging them and 04Yegh8    2:37 | bodies by dragging them and our ears by cutting them off 04Yegh8    2:37 | cutting them off; sanctify also our noses by removing them. For 04Yegh8    2:37 | as much as you render us ugly in an earthly fashion 04Yegh8    2:37 | the more beautiful you make us in a heavenly fashion 04Yegh8    2:41 | to him: “You have left our land half-tilled. We will 04Yegh8    2:41 | left our land half-tilled. We will not cultivate the royal 04Yegh8    2:41 | the royal land with half our bodies 04Yegh8    2:47 | greatly saddened as if supposing “ we have labored little and are 04Yegh8    3:60 | We know,” they said, “that when 04Yegh8    3:60 | gave themselves to death for our sake and spilled their blood 04Yegh8    3:62 | perhaps they will also remember our bonds, and in their prayers 04Yegh8    3:62 | prayers will ask God that we may return from captivity to 04Yegh8    3:62 | may return from captivity to our native land 04Yegh8    3:63 | For we are extremely anxious, not merely 04Yegh8    3:63 | extremely anxious, not merely for our bodily wants, but more specially 04Yegh8    3:63 | but more specially to see our holy churches and pious ministers 04Yegh8    3:63 | churches and pious ministers that we have established there 04Yegh8    3:64 | And if God will favor us once more to go and 04Yegh8    3:64 | the needs of the survivors, we know that God will also 04Yegh8    3:64 | God will also open for us the door of his mercy 04Yegh8    3:64 | door of his mercy, that we may follow the same path 04Yegh8    3:69 | on high who has sent us this angel from heaven to 04Yegh8    3:69 | angel from heaven to bring us the news of the Resurrection 04Yegh8    3:69 | of the Resurrection, so that we may become heirs of the 04Yegh8    3:70 | For behold we see figured in you all 04Yegh8    3:71 | In you we see the restoration of our 04Yegh8    3:71 | we see the restoration of our land in peace; in you 04Yegh8    3:71 | land in peace; in you our churches take delight and joy 04Yegh8    3:71 | and joy; and through you our holy martyrs will be ceaselessly 04Yegh8    3:72 | Bless us, our holy father. You are 04Yegh8    3:72 | Bless us, our holy father. You are the 04Yegh8    3:72 | of the dead; speak with us in open blessing that we 04Yegh8    3:72 | us in open blessing that we may hear secretly in our 04Yegh8    3:72 | we may hear secretly in our souls the blessings of the 04Yegh8    3:74 | in heaven the gate for our prayers, so that the supplications 04Yegh8    3:74 | so that the supplications of us sinners may enter before God 04Yegh8    3:74 | those same prisoners. And while we are in this impermanent body 04Yegh8    3:74 | in this impermanent body, as we have seen your blessed sanctity 04Yegh8    3:74 | your blessed sanctity, so may we— who have long been oppressed 04Yegh8    3:74 | been oppressed and beset in our souls and bodies—also see 04Yegh8    3:74 | souls and bodies—also see our dear loved ones 04Yegh8    3:75 | We believe with infallible hope that 04Yegh8    3:75 | infallible hope that just as we finally were granted the sight 04Yegh8    3:75 | your holy love, so also we may soon be able to 04Yegh8    3:75 | true martyrs of Christ, as we are continuously desirous to behold 04Yegh9    1:18 | Now we are not merely astonished at 04Yegh9    1:18 | went to be tested, but we are more especially amazed that 04Yegh9    1:24 | Have you come to question us in order to test us 04Yegh9    1:24 | us in order to test us, or did the king really 04Yegh9    2:27 | Surely, we did not persist then out 04Yegh9    2:27 | ignorance, and today you made us realize our afflictions. Not at 04Yegh9    2:27 | today you made us realize our afflictions. Not at all 04Yegh9    2:28 | this is the regret in our minds—why did we not 04Yegh9    2:28 | in our minds—why did we not end our lives with 04Yegh9    2:28 | why did we not end our lives with the previous martyrs 04Yegh9    2:29 | So now we beg you, and through you 04Yegh9    2:29 | your king, do not question us any more about these matters 04Yegh9    2:29 | whatever you have decided in our case 04Yegh9    5:108 | visitor from afar: “When shall we be able to see our 04Yegh9    5:108 | we be able to see our dear ones?” But the desire 04Yegh9    5:109 | And may we and they together inherit the 04Yegh9    5:109 | love God in Christ Jesus our Lord 05Parp1    1:4 | is this one, composed in our infirmity. Compelled by the command 05Parp1    1:4 | words of the blessed vardapets we committed ourselves to such an 05Parp1    1:5 | For we recalled the threatening of the 05Parp1    1:5 | are forgiven. One by one we arranged the events, deeds and 05Parp1    1:7 | We describe the beheading of God’s 05Parp1    1:8 | We wrote about all the events 05Parp1    1:8 | general and marzpan of Armenia. Our history ends there 05Parp1    2:0 | We have examined many narrations in 05Parp1    2:0 | of Armenia. After long reading we found in them the periods 05Parp1    2:0 | These were appropriately narrated to us by the venerable Agat’angeghos, a 05Parp1    2:5 | Savior caused to spread in our land, through the intercession of 05Parp1    2:7 | and more was related to us in a clear and correct 05Parp1    3:5 | man the Cross of Life, our salvation, was discovered 05Parp1    4:5 | just such an example were we forced to write this history 05Parp1    4:10 | We, in our weakness, were forced 05Parp1    4:10 | We, in our weakness, were forced to undertake 05Parp1    4:10 | this work (which is above our abilities) by the lord of 05Parp1    4:11 | We have not translated this half 05Parp1    4:12 | He wills. Becoming enraged at our evil deeds, He urges us 05Parp1    4:12 | our evil deeds, He urges us to repent. Seeing us turned 05Parp1    4:12 | urges us to repent. Seeing us turned good, He quickly has 05Parp1    4:12 | He quickly has mercy upon us 05Parp2    6:5 | neither conflict nor affection between us but now they threaten us 05Parp2    6:5 | us but now they threaten us with war and a man 05Parp2    6:5 | better than himself. But should we bow and incline toward affection 05Parp2    6:5 | other, then they will regard us as brothers, giving less honor 05Parp2    6:5 | all (the lands) will be our share, and we shall bear 05Parp2    6:5 | will be our share, and we shall bear the name of 05Parp2    6:6 | Indeed now, because we and our ancestors have enraged 05Parp2    6:6 | Indeed now, because we and our ancestors have enraged tolerant and 05Parp2    6:6 | enraged tolerant and mild God, we have been betrayed into slavery 05Parp2    6:6 | are inconsolable at the division. We watched the haughty godless Iranian 05Parp2    6:6 | inherit the beautiful site of our rest and habitation 05Parp2    10:3 | all of this down accurately. We have read (Koriwn) numerous times 05Parp2    10:3 | numerous times, and so confirmed our information 05Parp2    10:10 | it would be worthwhile for us to make the king feel 05Parp2    11:1 | said to the blessed patriarch:” We who stand before you, and 05Parp2    11:6 | For we were unable to become as 05Parp2    12:5 | like brothers, the peoples under our sway and under Byzantine authority 05Parp2    12:5 | to him, and rebel from us 05Parp2    12:6 | Byzantines) have made work for us many times (in the past 05Parp2    12:6 | worse, and they will trouble us with warfare 05Parp2    12:7 | the Armenians) are strangers to our religion, and hate it, while 05Parp2    12:8 | Now, should someone of our line rule over the land 05Parp2    12:8 | over the land of Armenia, our kingdom will not be troubled 05Parp2    12:8 | and (the Armenians) will serve us with constant fear and trepidation 05Parp2    12:9 | will conceive a liking for our faith, since (Armenians and Iranians 05Parp2    13:1 | the Part’ew line. They note: “ We can no longer bear the 05Parp2    13:1 | foul actions of the king. We consider it better to die 05Parp2    13:2 | Moreover, because of conscience, we are unable to commune in 05Parp2    13:2 | remaining silent about it. For we learned from you and from 05Parp2    13:6 | the blessed kat’oghikos Sahak, saying: “ We are unable to find any 05Parp2    13:6 | was unworthy of the inheritance. We can think of doing nothing 05Parp2    13:7 | Now we beg you to support our 05Parp2    13:7 | we beg you to support our plan. It is not fitting 05Parp2    13:14 | I, and you too, as we learned from God, should speak 05Parp2    13:14 | beseech the most merciful Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, with tears 05Parp2    13:14 | because he was baptised is our brother and of our flesh 05Parp2    13:14 | is our brother and of our flesh, even though he is 05Parp2    13:16 | make the blessed mystery of our religion an object of ridicule 05Parp2    13:18 | humane fashion what appear to us to be extremely difficult (matters 05Parp2    13:20 | should be the betrayer of our correct faith and betray the 05Parp2    13:24 | Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How 05Parp2    13:29 | And why should we plot to destroy someone with 05Parp2    13:33 | Because you did not heed our words and refused to ally 05Parp2    13:33 | and refused to ally with us, know that just as we 05Parp2    13:33 | us, know that just as we are resolved not to have 05Parp2    13:33 | to have (Artashes] rule over us as king, any longer, so 05Parp2    13:33 | as king, any longer, so we promise that you shall not 05Parp2    13:33 | not reign as patriarch over our land for long 05Parp2    14:11 | rejected from your authority. Because we are of the same azg 05Parp2    14:13 | you. For though according to our holy faith he is worthy 05Parp2    14:16 | Iranian prince come to oversee us from time to time and 05Parp2    14:16 | to time and, learning of our loyalty or disloyalty, tell you 05Parp2    15:12 | those of the teachings of our land. Give us another man 05Parp2    15:12 | teachings of our land. Give us another man as a leader 05Parp2    15:12 | as a leader, someone of our native order, who will be 05Parp2    16:1 | the true patriarch, and note: “ We have sinned before Heaven and 05Parp2    16:1 | Heaven and before you. Pardon us sinners, and imitate your ancestor 05Parp2    16:1 | he was subjected to by our ancestors 05Parp2    16:2 | to resemble the Creator of us all, who repaid the evils 05Parp2    16:2 | everyone to constantly say: ’Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those 05Parp2    16:2 | say: ’Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed 05Parp2    16:2 | those who have trespassed against us. ’ 05Parp2    16:3 | Now you, who were our constant vardapet, imprint His glory 05Parp2    16:3 | example of patience, and forgive our trespasses 05Parp2    16:4 | And we shall endeavor and request that 05Parp2    16:4 | the Holy Church through which we were illuminated and saw that 05Parp2    16:5 | saint’s unadulterated preaching, and lo! we and our offspring will suffer 05Parp2    16:5 | preaching, and lo! we and our offspring will suffer an eternal 05Parp2    16:7 | And He always protested to us, saying: “Bless your persecutors, and 05Parp2    16:8 | the Holy Spirit which gave us a second birth in the 05Parp2    16:8 | the holy baptismal font allowing us to be co-inheritors of 05Parp2    16:9 | betrayed the blessed faith of our covenant and permitted the infidels 05Parp2    17:1 | each and knows more than we can understand or think 05Parp2    17:10 | Here, we present the vision, which are 05Parp2    17:41 | because of the coming of our Savior, the Son of God 05Parp2    17:43 | through the chosen man, Paul: “ We will be caught up together 05Parp2    18:3 | hour of the day. As we know accurately the day of 05Parp2    18:3 | of the venerable Koriwn so we surely know that the saint 05Parp2    18:5 | worship the one true God, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 05Parp3    20:8 | who are not obedient to us see all of this, they 05Parp3    20:8 | not comprehend it, for unlike us they lack our great wisdom 05Parp3    20:8 | for unlike us they lack our great wisdom and xrad of 05Parp3    20:10 | peoples who have submitted to our great authority, yet adhere to 05Parp3    20:10 | realm are eternally lost, while we will be punished for it 05Parp3    21:9 | you get them accustomed to our faith and they become familiar 05Parp3    21:10 | will be firmly bound to us in affection and unity 05Parp3    21:11 | of the Armenians belong to us, ( the hearts of) the Iberians 05Parp3    21:11 | Aghbanians (Aghuans) will also be ours 05Parp3    21:12 | until then, and to adopt our true and firm faith which 05Parp3    22:1 | am thinking that just as we enjoy the benefits and other 05Parp3    22:1 | people under the authority of our kingdom we are therefore even 05Parp3    22:1 | the authority of our kingdom we are therefore even more obliged 05Parp3    22:1 | find salvation for everyone’s souls. Our faith informs us that we 05Parp3    22:1 | everyone’s souls. Our faith informs us that we will suffer heavy 05Parp3    22:1 | Our faith informs us that we will suffer heavy punishment from 05Parp3    22:1 | punishment from the gods should we be found indifferent with regard 05Parp3    22:2 | Now if we are to be punished for 05Parp3    22:2 | will be punished both by us, and by the gods 05Parp3    22:3 | Accordingly, we have had our correct and 05Parp3    22:3 | Accordingly, we have had our correct and just faith written 05Parp3    22:3 | useful land and beloved by us, we want you to study 05Parp3    22:3 | land and beloved by us, we want you to study our 05Parp3    22:3 | we want you to study our just and balanced faith and 05Parp3    22:3 | to worship the faith which we all clearly know is false 05Parp3    22:4 | Now, having heard our command, implement it willingly and 05Parp3    22:5 | We also want and are ordering 05Parp3    22:5 | are ordering you to write us ( the principles) of your so 05Parp3    22:5 | so-called faith so that ( we can see) how lost you 05Parp3    22:6 | And when, as we, you become people who recognize 05Parp3    22:6 | you become people who recognize our true faith, then the Iberians 05Parp3    22:6 | dare to stray from what we and you want 05Parp3    24:0 | radiant and true precepts of our faith—which to you seems 05Parp3    24:0 | you would obey) God.’ We, exhorted first by the command 05Parp3    24:0 | first by the command of our faith, and then by your 05Parp3    24:0 | kingdom, to the extent of our ability have it in mind 05Parp3    24:1 | Rather ( we wish) to implement your will 05Parp3    24:1 | order fully, voluntarily and enthusiastically. ( We wish) to serve you not 05Parp3    24:1 | only with material expenses. Rather we will shed our blood and 05Parp3    24:1 | expenses. Rather we will shed our blood and the blood of 05Parp3    24:1 | blood and the blood of our sons for your sake 05Parp3    24:2 | the salvation or loss of our souls, do not in any 05Parp3    24:3 | reward or punish because of our souls—as you said—may 05Parp3    24:3 | that benefit or punishment on us and on our souls 05Parp3    24:3 | punishment on us and on our souls 05Parp3    24:4 | If we are quiet on that matter 05Parp3    24:4 | quiet on that matter, forgive us. Because, just as it is 05Parp3    24:4 | similarly it is impossible for us who naturally have studied and 05Parp3    24:4 | a command and accept it. We cannot hear even a single 05Parp3    24:4 | single word about this, because we simply do not want to 05Parp3    24:5 | written down and brought to us, we shall never listen to 05Parp3    24:5 | down and brought to us, we shall never listen to you 05Parp3    24:6 | When we are at court, there and 05Parp3    24:6 | your “teachers of the faith”) we have subjected to ridicule. (How 05Parp3    24:6 | to ridicule. (How much more we would ridicule) what you have 05Parp3    24:6 | have written and are urging us to read and obey, something 05Parp3    24:6 | read and obey, something which we neither need nor want 05Parp3    24:7 | honor your kingdom even more, we have desired not even to 05Parp3    24:7 | read what you have written. We recognize those precepts as false 05Parp3    24:7 | of a stupid person. As we have heard them many times 05Parp3    24:7 | there is no need for us to read or hear them 05Parp3    24:8 | Indeed, were we to read them, we would 05Parp3    24:8 | were we to read them, we would be forced to ridicule 05Parp3    24:8 | ridicule them which would make us enemies of those precepts, their 05Parp3    24:9 | Consequently, we did not deem it fitting 05Parp3    24:9 | write down the precepts of our faith and have them brought 05Parp3    24:10 | For if we did not consider the precepts 05Parp3    24:10 | written down and brought to us— since you would be alienated 05Parp3    24:10 | you would be alienated from us for laughing at them, why 05Parp3    24:10 | at them, why then should we write down the God-loving 05Parp3    24:10 | loving and correct precepts of our faith and send it to 05Parp3    24:11 | be clear to you about our beliefs: we do not serve 05Parp3    24:11 | to you about our beliefs: we do not serve the elements 05Parp3    24:11 | as you do. Nor do we revere the many gods which 05Parp3    24:12 | For we have learned about and firmly 05Parp3    25:3 | note: “They have written to us regarding the destruction of themselves 05Parp3    25:10 | and plans, saying: “Yes, let us go, but let us not 05Parp3    25:10 | let us go, but let us not consent to apostasizing the 05Parp3    25:11 | God will arrange this for us if we show ourselves as 05Parp3    25:11 | arrange this for us if we show ourselves as part of 05Parp3    25:11 | soul. May their intercession correct our answers before the awesome king 05Parp3    25:11 | answers before the awesome king, our Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ, and 05Parp3    25:11 | Lord Jesus Christ, and protect us from the attack of the 05Parp3    25:11 | beast which is coming against us 05Parp3    26:4 | non-Aryans without hearing from us a reply to your order 05Parp3    26:6 | They replied: “ We recognize you as king, (king 05Parp3    26:6 | king) of all, and especially our king. Like God, you have 05Parp3    26:6 | God, you have authority over us and over everyone in your 05Parp3    26:8 | in which you will serve us and our wishes and agree 05Parp3    26:8 | you will serve us and our wishes and agree not to 05Parp3    26:8 | and agree not to resist ( our) command; but that there is 05Parp3    26:9 | Now in our kingdom and among all the 05Parp3    26:9 | and pertinent one, by which our lordship and guardianship over you 05Parp3    26:9 | judicious service and obedience to us is acknowledged 05Parp3    26:10 | For we are satisfied with the work 05Parp3    26:10 | present you have displayed toward us, the king, and toward the 05Parp3    26:10 | and toward the Aryan land. We want to dispatch you to 05Parp3    26:20 | May the king excuse us for a few days to 05Parp3    26:21 | seek is the destruction of our ancestral, patrimonial and familiar tradition 05Parp3    26:21 | accepted and liked neither by our fathers, nor by us 05Parp3    26:21 | by our fathers, nor by us 05Parp3    27:1 | wicked hunter, has set for us unless temporarily, under pretext, we 05Parp3    27:1 | us unless temporarily, under pretext, we do what they have commanded 05Parp3    27:2 | Then each of us shall go to his land 05Parp3    27:2 | Gregory and his son acquainted us with through the renewed birth 05Parp3    27:3 | But were we to think solely of our 05Parp3    27:3 | we to think solely of our own salvation and resist the 05Parp3    27:3 | resist the prince’s impious orders, we would cause the eternal ruination 05Parp3    27:9 | Do not look upon us with astonishment. See first the 05Parp3    27:11 | would thicken and adhere to our holy Church, people, women and 05Parp3    27:12 | Should you join in our strategem, if you are but 05Parp3    27:12 | convince yourself for a moment, we know that many of us 05Parp3    27:12 | we know that many of us shall find mercy, that all 05Parp3    27:13 | moment, will become diseased for our sake, since the most merciful 05Parp3    27:13 | the Lord God, will heal us with you 05Parp3    27:25 | not his sin, sins against us 05Parp3    27:27 | curses and makes proverbs about us. You are not greater and 05Parp3    27:29 | king has said, and free us from the attacks of the 05Parp3    27:29 | has set this trap for us, we shall hear and obey 05Parp3    27:29 | set this trap for us, we shall hear and obey everything 05Parp3    27:29 | everything that you say, giving our lives for the blessed covenant 05Parp3    27:29 | the blessed covenant, and shedding our blood for the salvation of 05Parp3    27:30 | Should it happen that we choose to leave the land 05Parp3    27:30 | the land and all of our belongings and flee into exile 05Parp3    27:30 | and flee into exile with our women and children, we will 05Parp3    27:30 | with our women and children, we will gladly accept poverty and 05Parp3    27:30 | accept poverty and mendicancy. Let us only be spared this anger 05Parp3    27:33 | for your temporary acceptance of us 05Parp3    28:8 | before you, your ancestors, liked us and cared about our condition 05Parp3    28:8 | liked us and cared about our condition, that it be flourishing 05Parp3    28:8 | demonstrated even more affection toward us, for you thought to acquaint 05Parp3    28:8 | thought to acquaint and grant us eternal life 05Parp3    28:9 | And if we served your ancestors with all 05Parp3    28:9 | willingness, doing everything they ordered us, everyone should offer service to 05Parp3    28:9 | worried over the salvation of our erring souls 05Parp3    28:12 | my ancestors, from the time we had been ranked in your 05Parp3    30:6 | If we live, it is because of 05Parp3    30:6 | because of God. So, let us not dread the day of 05Parp3    30:6 | not dread the day of our death, since no one can 05Parp3    30:6 | comes sooner or later. Should we dwell in poverty or exile 05Parp3    30:6 | poverty or exile, only let us be succored by Him and 05Parp3    30:6 | succored by Him and let us take pride in His name 05Parp3    30:7 | Let us only cast off from ourselves 05Parp3    30:7 | the flock of Christ, and we will bear willingly all the 05Parp3    30:7 | willingly all the sorrows which we encounter—hunger, the sword, or 05Parp3    30:12 | them to his belief, that: “ We must immediately send select priests 05Parp3    30:12 | For without him, all of our hopes and plans will come 05Parp3    30:16 | have escaped. But all of us will be ruined with eternal 05Parp3    30:17 | For without you neither we nor our sons shall ever 05Parp3    30:17 | without you neither we nor our sons shall ever find salvation 05Parp3    30:18 | For there are many of us who are of your blood 05Parp3    30:18 | mingled with your azg. Let us, too, be crowned by Christ 05Parp3    30:20 | thing in the world that we choose and find salvation for 05Parp3    30:20 | choose and find salvation for our souls. We have learned and 05Parp3    30:20 | find salvation for our souls. We have learned and firmly hold 05Parp3    30:21 | We do not merely seek benefit 05Parp3    30:21 | not merely seek benefit for our own souls, but would rejoice 05Parp3    30:22 | Nor is it that we are fleeing out of fear 05Parp3    30:22 | the sword. Anyone familiar with our azg would know that this 05Parp3    30:22 | for the well-being of our comrades than for ourselves 05Parp3    30:23 | which you always displayed toward our ancestors, we have departed to 05Parp3    30:23 | always displayed toward our ancestors, we have departed to escape. As 05Parp3    30:23 | As you have always placed us in straits and yet held 05Parp3    30:23 | yourselves aloof, it has been our azg alone which has faced 05Parp3    30:24 | But no one of our azg has stood opposed to 05Parp3    30:24 | of the Gospel, nor do we wish to. God forbid 05Parp3    32:3 | of them: “How long shall we countenance hiding the truth and 05Parp3    32:3 | spread about everywhere. Rather, let us go about in the full 05Parp3    32:9 | We confess our belief in You 05Parp3    32:9 | We confess our belief in You, holy Father 05Parp3    32:9 | in Your Only-Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and in 05Parp3    32:12 | And we testify to and confess You 05Parp3    32:12 | lords, God the atoner of our sins—we who have apostasized 05Parp3    32:12 | the atoner of our sins— we who have apostasized and regretted 05Parp3    32:12 | have apostasized and regretted it, we who are guilty, and sought 05Parp3    32:12 | guilty, and sought your mercy, we who have fallen and (now 05Parp3    32:13 | Accept us as the apostate son who 05Parp3    32:13 | baptism with which you clothed us when we washed in the 05Parp3    32:13 | which you clothed us when we washed in the baptismal font 05Parp3    32:14 | And now, again, we beseech Your true heavenly Father 05Parp3    32:14 | Your true heavenly Father, saying ’We have sinned against Heaven and 05Parp3    32:14 | and against You.’ Grant us forgiveness for our sins through 05Parp3    32:14 | ’ Grant us forgiveness for our sins through the intercession of 05Parp3    32:14 | and was their coworker. Clothe us in our former robe, clear 05Parp3    32:14 | their coworker. Clothe us in our former robe, clear our feet 05Parp3    32:14 | in our former robe, clear our feet of the impediments of 05Parp3    32:14 | which the enemy has pierced us and made us lame 05Parp3    32:14 | has pierced us and made us lame 05Parp3    32:15 | Put on our feet shoes of preservation, of 05Parp3    32:15 | Place on the finger of our right hands the ring engraved 05Parp3    32:15 | Cross, by which all of our limbs are sealed and which 05Parp3    32:15 | causes Satan to flee from us in terror 05Parp3    32:16 | save the guilty, grant that we may shed our blood for 05Parp3    32:16 | grant that we may shed our blood for this confession and 05Parp3    32:16 | the pardon of each of our sins 05Parp3    32:17 | oath-breaker, and having quit our alliance, may he go outside 05Parp3    33:3 | in mind to inflict on us 05Parp3    33:5 | the prince of Siwnik’: “Let us now do as we planned 05Parp3    33:5 | Let us now do as we planned to, and dispatch to 05Parp3    33:5 | to the emperor those men we want to send. After that 05Parp3    36:6 | Let us be like the cleaned grain 05Parp3    36:6 | the cleaned grain, and let us await the day of our 05Parp3    36:6 | us await the day of our martyrdom with desire. Should we 05Parp3    36:6 | our martyrdom with desire. Should we be worthy of attaining the 05Parp3    36:6 | the fate of the saints, our good deaths will crown us 05Parp3    36:6 | our good deaths will crown us. ( Should we live), our boys 05Parp3    36:6 | deaths will crown us. (Should we live), our boys will be 05Parp3    36:6 | crown us. (Should we live), our boys will be preserved and 05Parp3    37:8 | might quickly come and bring us our crowns of the Kingdom 05Parp3    37:8 | quickly come and bring us our crowns of the Kingdom which 05Parp3    37:8 | eternal goodness, will bestow upon us through them 05Parp3    38:13 | And now those of us who have been kept for 05Parp3    38:19 | the Heavenly banquet, recalling for us the torments of saint Gregory 05Parp3    38:20 | Let us hasten to the wedding of 05Parp3    38:21 | Let us make haste without delay. And 05Parp3    39:11 | As we discovered through much investigation and 05Parp3    39:13 | the figure [3,544] was related to us as accurate by people who 05Parp3    41:3 | What reply do you think we should give to the men 05Parp3    41:3 | men who have come to us from Armenia 05Parp3    41:4 | It is not agreeable to us to scorn the covenant and 05Parp3    41:5 | Furthermore, we must think about what might 05Parp3    42:13 | they note: “He is approaching us 05Parp3    42:14 | shamelessness, is coming to greet us. Think what we ought to 05Parp3    42:14 | to greet us. Think what we ought to do, command us 05Parp3    42:14 | we ought to do, command us, and we will do it 05Parp3    42:14 | to do, command us, and we will do it 05Parp3    42:22 | holy man replied: “Of all we have said to you, we 05Parp3    42:22 | we have said to you, we forgot to ask the most 05Parp3    43:5 | Our laws also order us to 05Parp3    43:5 | Our laws also order us to fear the worthy and 05Parp3    43:5 | just kings and princes. But we refuse to replace the fear 05Parp3    43:6 | the fire which, you say, we killed, in no way did 05Parp3    43:6 | killed, in no way did we harm it either by beating 05Parp3    43:6 | scornfully abandoned it and departed. We saw no man, but only 05Parp3    43:6 | giving it any attention, until we took the ashes and extinguished 05Parp3    43:6 | ashes and extinguished it. For we had always observed its attendants 05Parp3    43:7 | information) given to you about us— that we took the fire 05Parp3    43:7 | to you about us—that we took the fire and extinguished 05Parp3    43:7 | fairness to become enraged with us and to put us to 05Parp3    43:7 | with us and to put us to death. Rather, (our actions 05Parp3    43:7 | put us to death. Rather, ( our actions) deserve praise and honor 05Parp3    43:8 | according to your doctrine, which we have heard from your teachers 05Parp3    43:8 | of fire. Not only did we not extinguish or harm the 05Parp3    43:8 | or harm the fire, but we were honoring it, and doing 05Parp3    43:9 | abandoned the fire, and not we who took it and gave 05Parp3    44:1 | things. Should some enemies attack us from all sides, that fire 05Parp3    44:1 | all sides, that fire preserved us 05Parp3    44:2 | fought remember his stoutheartedness. Indeed, our godlike lord saw this bravery 05Parp3    44:5 | priestly order in accordance with our faith and with the God 05Parp3    44:9 | true Christ-given ordination of our faith. Others, and myself also 05Parp3    44:10 | those of Him Who is our Creator and vardapet, Who note 05Parp3    44:11 | have commanded to respond to us with such words and threats 05Parp3    44:11 | and threats do not frighten us. For we did not, as 05Parp3    44:11 | do not frighten us. For we did not, as some now 05Parp3    44:11 | without a plan; nor do we regret it. Nor do we 05Parp3    44:11 | we regret it. Nor do we stand in your awesome presence 05Parp3    44:11 | fear rather than joy. Rather, we are happy and delighted with 05Parp3    44:11 | happy and delighted with what we have done. We are surrounded 05Parp3    44:11 | with what we have done. We are surrounded by diverse sorrows 05Parp3    44:11 | await death eagerly, so that we be worthy 05Parp3    44:12 | fire, that you mentioned, in our Bible it is said that 05Parp3    44:21 | and were crowned. And indeed, we encouraged them and were their 05Parp3    44:24 | Our laws do not command us 05Parp3    44:24 | Our laws do not command us to be angry at someone 05Parp3    44:24 | from his own mouth. Now we saw that you were somewhat 05Parp3    44:24 | destroyer of your land (Ghewond). We are well informed about all 05Parp3    44:25 | But now, let us know if you share the 05Parp3    44:25 | arrogantly dared to express before us 05Parp3    44:26 | and shared with all of us, all the words and responses 05Parp3    44:27 | thought over and spoken to us. All of us share the 05Parp3    44:27 | spoken to us. All of us share the same thoughts and 05Parp3    44:27 | and the same determination, and we hope we shall be worthy 05Parp3    44:27 | same determination, and we hope we shall be worthy to die 05Parp3    45:12 | benevolence grant that one of our number whom we shall select 05Parp3    45:12 | one of our number whom we shall select (may speak) so 05Parp3    45:12 | plans and actions of what we undertook. For we should not 05Parp3    45:12 | of what we undertook. For we should not all speak before 05Parp3    45:15 | your kings, was revealed to us, and furthered with force, that 05Parp3    45:15 | force, that you had ordered us to hold a faith which 05Parp3    45:15 | hold a faith which neither we, nor our ancestors’ ancestors knew 05Parp3    45:15 | faith which neither we, nor our ancestors’ ancestors knew nor served 05Parp3    45:15 | ancestors’ ancestors knew nor served. We often protested that it was 05Parp3    45:15 | that it was impossible for us to consent to serve a 05Parp3    45:15 | to serve a faith which our ancestors had not served and 05Parp3    45:15 | seems heavy and contemptible to us. Your very truthful assembly can 05Parp3    45:15 | was such a protest from us 05Parp3    45:16 | force you undertook to (make us) accept the faith. With our 05Parp3    45:16 | us) accept the faith. With our lips atremble we exalted that 05Parp3    45:16 | faith. With our lips atremble we exalted that false (religion), wanting 05Parp3    45:16 | with deception for a moment ( our) fear of you. In our 05Parp3    45:16 | our) fear of you. In our hearts we regarded the deed 05Parp3    45:16 | of you. In our hearts we regarded the deed as loathsome 05Parp3    45:16 | the deed as loathsome, and we hated (doing it), but we 05Parp3    45:16 | we hated (doing it), but we decided to get ourselves free 05Parp3    45:16 | through strategems, to go to our land and to quit it 05Parp3    45:16 | and to quit it with our wives and children, departing to 05Parp3    45:19 | Vardan) the blessed Book of our faith, sealed with his own 05Parp3    45:20 | do not fear. Return, and we shall write a letter to 05Parp3    45:20 | go into his service by our own will, and he will 05Parp3    45:20 | will delightedly agree to give us a force. (The Byzantines) and 05Parp3    45:20 | a force. (The Byzantines) and we, united, will tire out the 05Parp3    45:23 | seal, and is here with us 05Parp3    45:26 | carry out the plan of our destruction which he had been 05Parp3    45:27 | this, he sent Vardan and us with a brigade to fight 05Parp3    45:27 | Aghbania (Aghuania). Having stupidly betrayed us, he precipitated this evil. He 05Parp3    45:29 | order it carried out upon us 05Parp3    46:0 | and extremely angry fashion: “Indeed we have heard about all of 05Parp3    46:1 | which have been given to us to read, and from which 05Parp3    46:1 | to read, and from which we were accurately informed of this 05Parp3    46:1 | informed of this. You made our meritorious and useful servant, the 05Parp3    46:1 | an oath, and then deceived ( us) by letters sent to the 05Parp3    46:3 | me such a servant as our Vardan, with all the strength 05Parp3    46:3 | dared to come and see us, as though we were unaware 05Parp3    46:3 | and see us, as though we were unaware of your treacherous 05Parp3    46:14 | ready and waiting for you.” We were accurately informed about his 05Parp3    48:7 | did not want to aid us. Rather, abandoning us, they strengthened 05Parp3    48:7 | to aid us. Rather, abandoning us, they strengthened the enemy’s side 05Parp3    48:7 | strengthened the enemy’s side. And we, defeated, returned full of shame 05Parp3    48:9 | explanation for the bad experiences we have had from the enemy 05Parp3    48:9 | who are extremely angry at us because of the god-killing 05Parp3    48:10 | day. Indeed, (for this reason) we have been mercilessly punished by 05Parp3    50:3 | Since,” he said, “ we have accurately learned that those 05Parp3    50:6 | Furthermore, we have been informed by trustworthy 05Parp3    50:6 | devious sect but now hold our radiant and just faith, that 05Parp3    50:11 | do so. For both of us shall be killed as indeed 05Parp3    50:12 | will be freed from bondage; we, with the power of the 05Parp3    50:12 | passed the wearisome days of our lives as exiles, will go 05Parp3    50:12 | as exiles, will go to our natural land and family, where 05Parp3    51:7 | But behold, now we are about to leave you 05Parp3    51:7 | and His holy Spirit that we, with intrepid encouragement, be worthy 05Parp3    51:7 | desirable heavenward road, and that we salute the most merciful Christ 05Parp3    51:11 | For us, today is a precursor of 05Parp3    51:11 | an opportunity to hear in our midst the doctrines of the 05Parp3    51:12 | be in anyone’s heart? For we are worthy to see in 05Parp3    51:12 | are worthy to see in our own lifetimes, in the flesh 05Parp3    51:12 | own lifetimes, in the flesh, our parents and spiritual vardapets, who 05Parp3    51:13 | But our eyes are full of tears 05Parp3    51:14 | God with great gladness, saying: “ We thank You, God, that through 05Parp3    51:16 | We thank you, Savior, for making 05Parp3    51:17 | We are now strengthened and encouraged 05Parp3    51:17 | by the graceful words of our spiritual parents, fathers to sons 05Parp3    51:18 | We depart from those who have 05Parp3    51:18 | from those who have placed us on the path to You 05Parp3    51:18 | the path to You joyfully. ( Our spiritual teachers) remaining in the 05Parp3    51:19 | of Your word. Give them our peace and let (Your) grace 05Parp3    51:21 | in glory: ’For your sake we are being killed all the 05Parp3    51:21 | killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to 05Parp3    53:1 | of the bound presbyters (whom we are taking out today), or 05Parp3    53:2 | to a bitter death, while we shall be guiltless for such 05Parp3    53:2 | it that pleasant thanks is our common lot 05Parp3    53:6 | beseeching (the priests) to “remember us forever, in your happiness and 05Parp3    53:7 | you to the district where we are travelling to and settle 05Parp3    53:7 | are travelling to and settle us with you in the eternal 05Parp3    53:13 | preparing to go?” They replied: “ We are ready to go wherever 05Parp3    53:13 | to go wherever you take our spiritual lords and vardapets in 05Parp3    55:7 | great kindness, for he ordered us, saying: ’Should they consent to 05Parp3    55:7 | sun and fire, and accept our faith, I will excuse the 05Parp3    55:13 | and (relaying) vain messages to us 05Parp3    55:14 | You will inform them. Let us know their words and wishes 05Parp3    55:16 | That question was put to us in the atean at court 05Parp3    55:16 | the Aryans, Mihrnerseh. He heard our response and wishes and informed 05Parp3    55:17 | We all have the same responses 05Parp3    55:17 | not altered them, as though we thoughtlessly and foolishly said them 05Parp3    55:18 | and matter has grown in our hearts day by day, why 05Parp3    55:18 | by day, why today should we be less fervent about the 05Parp3    55:18 | fervent about the good deed we accomplished than yesterday? We have 05Parp3    55:18 | deed we accomplished than yesterday? We have resolved to live or 05Parp3    55:18 | together with the same faith we now have 05Parp3    55:19 | refuse, you will die and we shall order them killed’—God 05Parp3    55:19 | them killed’—God forbid that we should apostasize the truth and 05Parp3    55:19 | it not happen that through our apostasy anyone of the believing 05Parp3    55:19 | They are now, more than us, beseeching God for our death 05Parp3    55:19 | than us, beseeching God for our death for God, than for 05Parp3    55:19 | death for God, than for our lives with apostasy 05Parp3    55:20 | to which you seem to us mindless and lost because of 05Parp3    55:20 | that message you have brought us by the king’s order, and 05Parp3    55:20 | the king’s order, and that we consider you and the one 05Parp3    55:22 | to say to Yovsep’: “Although we regard your enmity toward us 05Parp3    55:22 | we regard your enmity toward us as grave, which made you 05Parp3    55:22 | grave, which made you call us mindless and lost, we consider 05Parp3    55:22 | call us mindless and lost, we consider these personal insults as 05Parp3    55:23 | However, we must know the wishes and 05Parp3    55:23 | each of the others, for our laws so dictate 05Parp3    56:3 | venerable man of God, Ghewond: “ We have heard that no one 05Parp3    56:6 | with saint Sahak alone, saying: “ We must respond to their question 05Parp3    56:7 | them about the question of our demand, tell them, ’As for 05Parp3    56:7 | that I am knowledgeable about our faith (it is true), I 05Parp3    56:9 | to give, God forbid that we should accept honor from mortal 05Parp3    56:9 | digs up and carries away. We cannot compare this to the 05Parp3    56:10 | but one thing lacking from our blessed glorification, and that is 05Parp3    56:10 | the cup of death, which we hurry to drink as thirsty 05Parp3    56:11 | Let us drink quickly, and let us 05Parp3    56:11 | us drink quickly, and let us joyfully escape from this transitory 05Parp3    56:12 | to the impious prince: “What our holy vardapets and spiritual fathers 05Parp3    56:12 | Ghewond have said, is also our will and concern. Do quickly 05Parp3    56:12 | to do, and delay not. We ask that God grant us 05Parp3    56:12 | We ask that God grant us and find us deserving of 05Parp3    56:12 | God grant us and find us deserving of eternal honor and 05Parp3    56:15 | position, and (serves to) strengthen us in the unshakable truth of 05Parp3    56:15 | in the unshakable truth of our confession, which was learned from 05Parp3    57:1 | We thank you Christ, for sharing 05Parp3    57:1 | you Christ, for sharing with us many times your life-giving 05Parp3    57:1 | eternal sacrifice. And now that we are being sacrificed, accept all 05Parp3    57:6 | they note: “Lord Jesus, accept our souls 05Parp3    57:10 | events, pressing him warmly, and we have truthfully written what he 05Parp3    57:12 | to all the Christians. Then we shall be condemned to death 05Parp3    57:25 | and belief is great, while we, damaged by ignorance, will be 05Parp3    57:34 | this miraculous man’s name to us, but the Omniscent has recorded 05Parp3    57:41 | We heard these many times from 05Parp3    57:41 | with enthusiastic concern. For although we were not able to recall 05Parp3    57:41 | everything in order (because of our feeble-mindedness) nonetheless we were 05Parp3    57:41 | of our feeble-mindedness) nonetheless we were not careless to lazily 05Parp3    58:2 | You took our spiritual lords and vardapets from 05Parp3    58:2 | vardapets from Niwshapuh and departed. We wanted to accompany them, but 05Parp3    58:2 | them, but you forcibly ordered us kept here under stringent guard 05Parp3    58:2 | to a foreign country, do us a good turn and say 05Parp3    58:2 | and say so, so that we, too, can go there with 05Parp3    58:2 | with them and not return. We are prepared to go and 05Parp3    58:2 | only to see them, and we hope we will be worthy 05Parp3    58:2 | see them, and we hope we will be worthy. But if 05Parp3    58:2 | issue the same order about us, for we regard such a 05Parp3    58:2 | same order about us, for we regard such a death as 05Parp3    58:5 | receive very great honors from us and be sent back to 05Parp3    58:5 | if they do not accept our order, then they will be 05Parp3    58:7 | We are prepared not only for 05Parp3    58:8 | said about worshipping the sun, we are saddened and disturbed by 05Parp3    58:8 | there is no question of our resembling you (by converting). God 05Parp3    58:8 | by converting). God forbid that we should abandon the Creator and 05Parp3    58:18 | May we also be worthy of our 05Parp3    58:18 | we also be worthy of our lord Jesus Christ to Whom 05Parp3    59:0 | We shall record in order what 05Parp3    59:4 | new thing you are showing us today 05Parp4    61:2 | prophets and the holy Apostles, we who are filled with myriads 05Parp4    61:2 | or even regretfully thought about our own faults, are unworthy to 05Parp4    61:4 | of the captive naxarars—whom we heard with our own ears 05Parp4    61:4 | naxarars—whom we heard with our own ears—indeed resembled celestial 05Parp4    64:3 | hates and reviles those of us who love you, worship the 05Parp4    64:13 | for that is false. Rather, we have received our schooling in 05Parp4    64:13 | false. Rather, we have received our schooling in knowledge and understanding 05Parp4    64:13 | the cloth for the raiment we use we purchase there, for 05Parp4    64:13 | for the raiment we use we purchase there, for as it 05Parp4    64:13 | available in no other land, we are obliged by the needs 05Parp4    64:14 | regards the homage of service, our very faith commands us to 05Parp4    64:14 | service, our very faith commands us to requite proper and worthy 05Parp4    64:18 | in honor or splendor from our court 05Parp4    65:7 | practise. (The slanderers note:) “If we sit idly by, he will 05Parp4    65:7 | idly by, he will put us all to nought 05Parp4    66:6 | both for him and for us. For him, it would save 05Parp4    66:6 | conscience, while it would free us from the constant suspicions and 05Parp4    66:6 | oppressive envy of those whom we are forced to serve 05Parp4    66:7 | compassionate God may look upon our difficulties and aid us, and 05Parp4    66:7 | upon our difficulties and aid us, and we, together with the 05Parp4    66:7 | difficulties and aid us, and we, together with the Iberians, may 05Parp4    66:11 | how you swore oaths to our fathers and then broke them 05Parp4    66:15 | fully correct and true. But we are placing our hopes not 05Parp4    66:15 | true. But we are placing our hopes not on the Byzantines 05Parp4    66:15 | and through the death of ( our) ancestors who, by their martyrdom 05Parp4    66:15 | martyrdom pleased Christ the Savior. We also (place our hopes) on 05Parp4    66:15 | the Savior. We also (place our hopes) on our own deaths 05Parp4    66:15 | also (place our hopes) on our own deaths, for we consider 05Parp4    66:15 | on our own deaths, for we consider it better to die 05Parp4    66:17 | when the Iranians learn of our plan, they will tie him 05Parp4    67:8 | good name, both you and we shall receive from the king 05Parp4    67:9 | However, should you lazily delay, we fear that perhaps they themselves 05Parp4    67:9 | from elsewhere. (In that case) we do not know how the 05Parp4    67:9 | the matter will end. Perhaps we will be exhausted and regret 05Parp4    68:2 | This is especially true of our work, since we look to 05Parp4    68:2 | true of our work, since we look to His aid completely 05Parp4    68:4 | Now we must think of nothing else 05Parp4    68:11 | and note: “Who knows, maybe we can reach the ford where 05Parp4    68:11 | in some unexposed place. When we know that half of the 05Parp4    68:11 | brigade has crossed the river, we can fall on them and 05Parp4    68:11 | perhaps do some damage. Similarly, we can fall on the rest 05Parp4    68:19 | from Atrvshnasp, saying: “To now we have done nothing bad nor 05Parp4    68:23 | thought: “If, with God’s aid we are strengthened and beat them 05Parp4    68:23 | of the mountains will be our protection and aid us 05Parp4    68:23 | be our protection and aid us 05Parp4    69:3 | cried out together, saying: “Help us, God our Savior, for the 05Parp4    69:3 | together, saying: “Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of 05Parp4    69:14 | saying: “That brigade belongs to us, and you deceitfully would cause 05Parp4    69:21 | mountain where Akorhi is located. We are the only survivors who 05Parp4    70:3 | the belief and preaching of our correct and true faith quite 05Parp4    71:6 | voice: ’Hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been 05Parp4    71:6 | love has been poured into our hearts’ 05Parp4    71:13 | of each section that: “Opposite us and approaching, I see the 05Parp4    71:13 | the mightiest men, about whom we have been informed earlier—Iranian 05Parp4    71:13 | Go slowly and carefully watch us. Let us be the first 05Parp4    71:13 | and carefully watch us. Let us be the first to attack 05Parp4    71:13 | by the grace of Christ, we can put them to flight 05Parp4    71:13 | them to flight by moving our section, then they will be 05Parp4    71:13 | be unable to get before our other sections and you 05Parp4    72:7 | They collapsed and fell; but we rose and stood upright” [Psalm 19, 9], and 05Parp4    72:8 | they gave praise, saying: “Then we thy people, the flock of 05Parp4    72:8 | ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise 05Parp4    73:5 | Then you, we, and the Huns shall destroy 05Parp4    73:5 | that when the Huns arrive, we shall not have to participate 05Parp4    73:10 | brigades will not come to us in the mountains. Rather, they 05Parp4    73:10 | mountains. Rather, they say, show us here in the plains the 05Parp4    73:10 | plains the Armenians and then we will believe everything that you 05Parp4    73:10 | have said and vowed to us. Then will we do everything 05Parp4    73:10 | vowed to us. Then will we do everything you command. Otherwise 05Parp4    73:10 | do everything you command. Otherwise, we will not believe that the 05Parp4    73:10 | allied with you. But if we see that it is indeed 05Parp4    73:10 | then leave the Iranians to us and do not worry 05Parp4    73:16 | Iranian army, saying: “Many of us are involved in this matter 05Parp4    73:16 | in this matter not because we want to be, but out 05Parp4    73:16 | of Vahan, Armenia’s general. But our plans and thoughts are with 05Parp4    73:16 | and thoughts are with you. We know that we would not 05Parp4    73:16 | with you. We know that we would not leave your service 05Parp4    73:16 | but that bad individuals among us to now have sought to 05Parp4    73:16 | increase the damage done to us 05Parp4    73:17 | ever recall these words of ours, and have mercy on us 05Parp4    73:17 | ours, and have mercy on us, you will rule us 05Parp4    73:17 | on us, you will rule us 05Parp4    73:18 | For tomorrow, when we come to the place of 05Parp4    73:18 | to the place of battle, we will quit the brigade and 05Parp4    73:18 | many others to flee with us 05Parp4    73:20 | saying: “It is good that we are fighting with the Iranian 05Parp4    73:20 | Iranian troops today. For now, we are sufficient for them, and 05Parp4    73:20 | will be unable to withstand us. But if we had to 05Parp4    73:20 | to withstand us. But if we had to postpone it by 05Parp4    74:6 | and come back quickly. For we shall never find such a 05Parp4    74:6 | into incorruptible life. Hurry, or we will not attain immortality. Perhaps 05Parp4    74:6 | a renowned and glorious death, we will later quit this life 05Parp4    74:7 | lord of Shirak, related to us these words of the blessed 05Parp4    75:14 | were there any foreigners helping us, neither Huns, nor Byzantine, nor 05Parp4    75:14 | or even less than that, ( we) put to flight one or 05Parp4    75:15 | into thinking that you beat us because of any superior bravery 05Parp4    75:15 | bravery. Rather, it was that we were troubled with discord and 05Parp4    75:27 | persuading the king to forgive us— and indeed you can do 05Parp4    75:27 | of Armenia and take from our land that filthy trade which 05Parp4    75:28 | your offense occurred because of our tyranny and not because of 05Parp4    75:28 | the ignoble. Should you ’subdue’ us in this way, you are 05Parp4    75:28 | in this way, you are our natural lords, (the lords) of 05Parp4    75:28 | natural lords, (the lords) of our fathers and ancestors, and we 05Parp4    75:28 | our fathers and ancestors, and we will serve and submit to 05Parp4    75:29 | justly at worth and usefulness, we who rebelled are ready to 05Parp4    75:29 | to do it again. For we knew that we would not 05Parp4    75:29 | again. For we knew that we would not be able to 05Parp4    75:29 | withstand the Aryans, knowing as we do the unfortunate power we 05Parp4    75:29 | we do the unfortunate power we possess and the great, inestimable 05Parp4    75:30 | We had resolved only to die 05Parp4    75:30 | had resolved only to die. We are even more delighted (to 05Parp4    75:30 | delighted (to continue fighting) for we will die a noteworthy and 05Parp4    76:6 | fog of the impiety of our sins, drive away the dense 05Parp4    76:11 | deeds) and delivered him into our hands. Although we wanted to 05Parp4    76:11 | him into our hands. Although we wanted to preserve and spare 05Parp4    76:13 | We give you such advice to 05Parp4    76:13 | advice to preserve you, since we hope for your life and 05Parp4    77:4 | and well, and they sent us to you to tell you 05Parp4    77:4 | flight from the Iberian battle, we remained at the site of 05Parp4    77:4 | the severity of the wounds we had sustained) we drew near 05Parp4    77:4 | the wounds we had sustained) we drew near to one another 05Parp4    77:5 | Teghac’ retreat was placed as our guardian, and, that same hour 05Parp4    77:5 | one by one he lifted us up and took us about 05Parp4    77:5 | lifted us up and took us about one Iranian hrasax away 05Parp4    77:5 | still did not know who we were or from what district 05Parp4    77:5 | with his virtue, he treated us as men wounded for the 05Parp4    77:5 | and he wanted to save us or, in the event that 05Parp4    77:5 | or, in the event that we died, to gather our bones 05Parp4    77:5 | that we died, to gather our bones for the sake of 05Parp4    77:5 | soul. This man, after removing us from the (battle)site to 05Parp4    77:6 | went to his monastery, brought us a small amount of food 05Parp4    77:6 | another cleric with him, offered us the food and bade us 05Parp4    77:6 | us the food and bade us eat. After eating the food 05Parp4    77:6 | After eating the food as we could from the saint’s hands 05Parp4    77:6 | could from the saint’s hands, we were revived a bit 05Parp4    77:7 | When he saw that we had been revived somewhat and 05Parp4    77:7 | been revived somewhat and opened our eyes, he gradually began to 05Parp4    77:7 | he gradually began to interrogate us as to where we had 05Parp4    77:7 | interrogate us as to where we had come from, and from 05Parp4    77:7 | what district, since, he said, our manner and demeanor were such 05Parp4    77:7 | he was led to believe we were azats 05Parp4    77:8 | When we saw the man’s virtue, we 05Parp4    77:8 | we saw the man’s virtue, we accurately informed him about ourselves 05Parp4    77:8 | God. Leaving the cleric with us, he left us and went 05Parp4    77:8 | cleric with us, he left us and went to his monastery 05Parp4    77:9 | they placed the three of us on the animal(s) and 05Parp4    77:9 | the animal(s) and took us to the retreat where they 05Parp4    77:9 | where they dwelled. They concealed us there with them for many 05Parp4    77:9 | through the power of God we were healed and made well 05Parp4    77:10 | the adversary satan, (news of our escape) was breathed into the 05Parp4    77:10 | They started to hunt for us tirelessly and wanted to kill 05Parp4    77:10 | tirelessly and wanted to kill us, to achieve glory and honors 05Parp4    77:11 | the blessed monk secretly took us about, to many deserted places 05Parp4    77:11 | pursued and examined (the messenger) we would be discovered and killed 05Parp4    77:12 | dependable military commander and bring us to you, so that when 05Parp4    77:12 | to you, so that when we reach there together, we shall 05Parp4    77:12 | when we reach there together, we shall avenge the truth of 05Parp4    77:12 | shall avenge the truth of our faith.’ 05Parp4    77:13 | believed them and note: “Now we must move even more quickly 05Parp4    77:18 | This is) because long before we had attacked and reached each 05Parp4    78:2 | in the king’s glory and we shall rest from this very 05Parp4    79:7 | be subdued and will obey us ( as we wish), or, he 05Parp4    79:7 | and will obey us (as we wish), or, he (and he 05Parp4    80:5 | indeed you want to subdue our men let them know that 05Parp4    80:5 | men let them know that we are at peace and they 05Parp4    80:6 | know no other women than us. But should they hear anything 05Parp4    80:6 | they hear anything else about us— insults, shameful things, not to 05Parp4    80:6 | loathesome acts—in accordance with our faith they will be even 05Parp4    80:11 | Hrahat wrote the following reply: “ Our labor and work is not 05Parp4    80:11 | but for the mystery of our great and revered faith 05Parp4    80:13 | For if we could not see clearly that 05Parp4    80:13 | not equal the honor which we long for, then we would 05Parp4    80:13 | which we long for, then we would be too stupid to 05Parp4    80:13 | giving it to one of our maid-servants to pollute as 05Parp4    80:13 | she would. For a moment we might enjoy the futile glory 05Parp4    80:13 | and appear lustrous, but then we would be eternally and wickedly 05Parp4    80:14 | But as for our women, we will give you 05Parp4    80:14 | But as for our women, we will give you a sign 05Parp4    80:14 | examine it well. For if we bear these sorrows for the 05Parp4    80:14 | sorrows for the faith which we love and firmly hold to 05Parp4    80:14 | of (heavenly) glory and if our works seem pleasing and acceptable 05Parp4    80:14 | just God, He will save us from oppression, will preserve our 05Parp4    80:14 | us from oppression, will preserve our women in all sanctity, and 05Parp4    80:14 | sanctity, and give them to us. Otherwise we will blame our 05Parp4    80:14 | give them to us. Otherwise we will blame our lack of 05Parp4    80:14 | us. Otherwise we will blame our lack of faith, but not 05Parp4    81:5 | For they note: “If only we find some way of dealing 05Parp4    81:5 | of dealing with him, all our business will be finished and 05Parp4    81:10 | God demand (an explanation) from us for the man from different 05Parp4    82:0 | united around him, he showed us ( an example of) his bravery 05Parp4    82:1 | glory of the Aryans aided us such that (as you saw 05Parp4    82:1 | resulted in one thing, while our’s came to a good conclusion 05Parp4    82:2 | day he depletes and defeats our brigade 05Parp4    82:3 | elsewhere, for he will reduce us to but a few, and 05Parp4    82:3 | but a few, and make us retreat in shame. Furthermore, I 05Parp4    82:3 | Furthermore, I am unsure about our retreat even 05Parp4    82:4 | the man rest. Otherwise, perhaps we will slow down and he 05Parp4    82:4 | down and he will exhaust us and embarrass us 05Parp4    82:4 | will exhaust us and embarrass us 05Parp4    83:5 | Now God has frequently glorified us with the victory and we 05Parp4    83:5 | us with the victory and we are thankful of that. And 05Parp4    83:5 | the Almighty will also grant us and crown us with that 05Parp4    83:5 | also grant us and crown us with that which is above 05Parp4    83:6 | put ten thousand to flight” [II Deuteronomy 32, 30]. We belong to God and God 05Parp4    83:6 | will look upon and aid us 05Parp4    83:7 | We are few in number. But 05Parp4    83:7 | i.e., that each of us will be able to chase 05Parp4    83:7 | lacking to become [300,000] (as against our [300]. They have no more than 05Parp4    83:8 | But let us always exalt in God’s name 05Parp4    83:13 | only in the Cross of our lord Jesus Christ 05Parp4    83:15 | invisible force aiding them which we cannot see. But if they 05Parp4    83:15 | to commit suicide, then let us get them in our midst 05Parp4    83:15 | let us get them in our midst and arrest all of 05Parp4    84:3 | damage. With what assurance can we ( who have become few) resist 05Parp4    84:4 | from his own relatives; and we survivors will be unable to 05Parp4    84:4 | will be unable to save our own lives 05Parp4    84:5 | Come now, let us hasten to the place of 05Parp4    85:9 | mouth was plainly saying: ’If we are condemned to death, and 05Parp4    85:9 | of kings wants to kill us, let him order us killed 05Parp4    85:9 | kill us, let him order us killed here with his own 05Parp4    85:12 | will not fight with me. We stipulated a boundary over which 05Parp4    85:12 | stipulated a boundary over which we would not dare to cross 05Parp4    85:14 | to Peroz: ’He is right; we are fighting falsely.’ 05Parp4    86:0 | get away from the work we have been engaged in 05Parp4    86:1 | terrified, so endangered and fatigued us that his actions and deeds 05Parp4    86:1 | of this period such as we have seen or know about 05Parp4    86:1 | related in romances and which we have heard 05Parp4    86:2 | which you see, but also ( we then had with us) the 05Parp4    86:2 | also (we then had with us) the brigade of the prince 05Parp4    86:3 | with only thirty men attacked ( us) and there were those who 05Parp4    86:4 | subdue and bring over to our side such people as Vahan 05Parp4    87:6 | Now all of us have enthusiastically chosen you as 05Parp4    87:6 | kingdom be made to flourish. ( We want you) to achieve reconciliation 05Parp4    88:6 | the battle which Hazarawuxt and we fought, even though Vahan was 05Parp4    88:6 | forces. Despite the fact that we were the victors, I know 05Parp4    88:6 | killed a countless multitude of our men 05Parp4    88:9 | commander, the way Vahan fatigued us with very few men (sometimes 05Parp4    88:9 | and the noble folk of our brigade who were there and 05Parp4    88:11 | thirty men fearlessly attacked [3,000] (of us) and wrought such a deed 05Parp4    88:13 | on their horses and elude us. Rather, unconcernedly, they followed alongside 05Parp4    88:14 | No one in our brigade dared to look at 05Parp4    88:14 | it seemed to all of us that they were gods, not 05Parp4    88:15 | and important consolation would ease our sorrow 05Parp4    88:16 | Armenians with such folk, are ours, the Iberians and Aghbanians (Aghuans 05Parp4    89:4 | important words regarding affairs of our rebellion—such a significant and 05Parp4    89:4 | potentially fatal act to which we have dedicated our lives—that 05Parp4    89:4 | to which we have dedicated our lives—that it is impossible 05Parp4    89:5 | three points are conceded to us in writing with the king’s 05Parp4    89:5 | with the king’s seal, then we will do all that is 05Parp4    89:5 | will heed your words as our ancestors did 05Parp4    89:6 | and junior folk. Nor did we just today decide upon these 05Parp4    89:6 | was done on the day we dedicated ourselves to death. Everyone 05Parp4    89:7 | the Iranians consent to grant us these three (demands) we will 05Parp4    89:7 | grant us these three (demands) we will serve them as natural 05Parp4    89:7 | it, and become (more) severe, we shall arise through the land 05Parp4    89:7 | ruined, and gladly die, but we shall not worship an Iranian 05Parp4    89:8 | important and useful point: let us keep our patrimonial and natural 05Parp4    89:8 | useful point: let us keep our patrimonial and natural laws (faith 05Parp4    89:8 | of Armenia, and hereafter let us not see those loathesome and 05Parp4    89:8 | is good, and it is our first demand 05Parp4    89:11 | Our third demand is that we 05Parp4    89:11 | Our third demand is that we want the one who is 05Parp4    89:16 | promise this, and can give us these promises in a written 05Parp4    89:16 | written and sealed form, call us and we will willingly come 05Parp4    89:16 | sealed form, call us and we will willingly come and hear 05Parp4    89:17 | But if you cannot give us these three demands, and know 05Parp4    89:17 | is impossible, then just as we gave our lives before, so 05Parp4    89:17 | then just as we gave our lives before, so we now 05Parp4    89:17 | gave our lives before, so we now are ready to die 05Parp4    89:17 | are ready to die, but we cannot serve the lord of 05Parp4    90:17 | fact that Nixor spoke to us affectionately that has caused such 05Parp4    91:2 | you and the two of us speak together and hear from 05Parp4    91:2 | hear from each other what we think is appropriate to do 05Parp4    91:14 | folk), and now all of us know about you first-hand 05Parp4    91:16 | such great injuries and wearing ( us) out 05Parp4    91:19 | will do everything you hear us say 05Parp4    91:20 | For when we ask about your rebellion, how 05Parp4    91:27 | more bitter service from which we cannot free ourselves 05Parp4    91:28 | forgiving the bad things between us, with my intercession I will 05Parp4    92:1 | When He gives us a benevolent, experienced and constructive 05Parp4    92:3 | However, we should also like to see 05Parp4    92:3 | such as Armenia and for us, people of that land, for 05Parp4    92:3 | for everyone, land and people. We see you as wanting and 05Parp4    92:3 | good thing for ourselves and our land 05Parp4    92:12 | of the Aryans placed on our land and insisted upon, we 05Parp4    92:12 | our land and insisted upon, we dared to plan and think 05Parp4    92:12 | think about (rebellion). And, although we thought about leaving the land 05Parp4    92:12 | multitude of the Aryans (for we are not so stupid and 05Parp4    92:12 | and crazed to think that we could resist and not be 05Parp4    92:12 | a paltry number of men, we knew this very well), nonetheless 05Parp4    92:12 | knew this very well), nonetheless we then reasoned that were we 05Parp4    92:12 | we then reasoned that were we, terrified, to imperceptibly steal away 05Parp4    92:12 | terrified, to imperceptibly steal away, we would certainly inherit the bad 05Parp4    92:12 | which has been given to us as such backward and despicable 05Parp4    92:13 | But we chose first to inform ourselves 05Parp4    92:14 | Had we been able to remain united 05Parp4    92:14 | able to remain united, had we not split and argued, we 05Parp4    92:14 | we not split and argued, we would have shown those coming 05Parp4    92:14 | have shown those coming against us whether indeed we resembled Aryans 05Parp4    92:14 | coming against us whether indeed we resembled Aryans or Syrians 05Parp4    92:15 | with all their cavalry. And we ( will fight) with the few 05Parp4    92:15 | few men whom you know we have, who lack house, servant 05Parp4    92:16 | the land of Armenia to us and them. (You should) give 05Parp4    92:18 | We who placed our lives in 05Parp4    92:18 | We who placed our lives in peril of death 05Parp4    92:18 | in writing, from the king. We need only those demands; grant 05Parp4    92:19 | to his worth. You are our natural lords; we are your 05Parp4    92:19 | You are our natural lords; we are your natural servants. Accept 05Parp4    92:19 | are your natural servants. Accept us with affection, and we shall 05Parp4    92:19 | Accept us with affection, and we shall happily serve you. Grant 05Parp4    92:19 | shall happily serve you. Grant us forgiveness for that transgression which 05Parp4    92:19 | transgression which your tyranny forced us to perpetrate 05Parp4    93:2 | and in a few days we will rejoice together 05Parp4    93:19 | naxarars with me (want) what we demanded from you through messengers 05Parp4    93:19 | and you promised to give us by order of the lord 05Parp4    93:20 | this it is impossible for us to live or serve you 05Parp4    93:20 | worship of the Church, as we wish. This is important and 05Parp4    93:20 | is important and essential to us; confirm it with the king’s 05Parp4    95:4 | with Vahan Mamikonean, as follows: “ We have fully heard about all 05Parp4    95:6 | would be very heavy, and our laws do not command it 05Parp4    95:8 | today and, like you, with us 05Parp4    95:10 | and sealed (letters) all of our words, the problem and boldness 05Parp4    95:10 | boldness of the act, and ( our willingness) to give our lives 05Parp4    95:10 | and (our willingness) to give our lives. To repeat the same 05Parp4    95:12 | something else, but you attacked us spiritually. Neither our ancestors nor 05Parp4    95:12 | you attacked us spiritually. Neither our ancestors nor we were able 05Parp4    95:12 | spiritually. Neither our ancestors nor we were able to be stopped 05Parp4    95:13 | We constantly complained and are complaining 05Parp4    95:13 | faith (laws) seem false to us and like the babblings of 05Parp4    95:13 | stupid people. Do not force us to be enemies over something 05Parp4    95:13 | be enemies over something which we cannot willingly and thoughtfully revere 05Parp4    95:13 | for it seems laughable and we do not believe (in Zoroastrianism 05Parp4    95:13 | in Zoroastrianism). But, not heeding our protests, imperiously and forcibly you 05Parp4    95:13 | forcibly you wanted to destroy us, and were youselves destroyed 05Parp4    95:14 | For our faith demands purity and does 05Parp4    95:14 | souls of people are ruined. ( Our faith) commands (us) to serve 05Parp4    95:14 | are ruined. (Our faith) commands ( us) to serve (our) masters and 05Parp4    95:14 | faith) commands (us) to serve ( our) masters and obey, as though 05Parp4    95:18 | accordance with the command of our faith they not be polluted 05Parp4    95:19 | Armenia. (It is something) which we do not regard as just 05Parp4    95:19 | not regard as just, and we do not revere anyone as 05Parp4    95:21 | But now demand that we honor you as servants honor 05Parp4    95:21 | and this issue come from us all 05Parp4    95:22 | If you grant confirmation of our demand and do not want 05Parp4    95:22 | do not want to remove us from your service, then confirm 05Parp4    95:22 | service, then confirm it for us in writing and with the 05Parp4    95:22 | confirmed). And demand submission from us as from serving folk. With 05Parp4    95:25 | revealed which was described before us by your Vahan I shall 05Parp4    96:7 | Armenia, are you satisfied with us, did we receive you well 05Parp4    96:7 | you satisfied with us, did we receive you well? If there 05Parp4    96:8 | done what you did to us, your unworthy servants; it would 05Parp4    96:11 | King Vagharsh inquired: “Now tell us in plain words what you 05Parp4    96:11 | what you need so that we will know 05Parp4    96:13 | foremost sought that present from us, let the Kamsarakan terut’iwn be 05Parp4    96:14 | matter), perform some service for us worthily and some merit to 05Parp4    96:14 | the Aryan world, and then we will look to what is 05Parp4    96:15 | And now be grateful to us for the reward and try 05Parp4    96:15 | ready to receive orders from us at times 05Parp4    100:0 | forms and various demonstrations did our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ 05Parp4    100:0 | Lord Jesus Christ reveal to us the plan of His coming 05Parp4    100:27 | are weary and who, as we said before, bear heavy burdens 05Parp4    100:36 | thousand good deeds, still say: “ We are worthless servants” [Matthew 25:30]. And do 05Parp4    100:39 | Of which, may we and everyone alike be found 05Parp4    100:39 | the grace and kindness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 06Khor1    1:2 | beginning of this work concerning our people 06Khor1    1:5 | For if on account of our reason, as it is said 06Khor1    1:5 | reason, as it is said, we are the image of God 06Khor1    1:6 | that if those who before us or even in our own 06Khor1    1:6 | before us or even in our own time were the nobles 06Khor1    1:6 | of wise men - now that we have realized that you are 06Khor1    1:7 | and numerous glorious deeds that we shall record in the course 06Khor1    1:7 | course of this history when we shall trace all the genealogies 06Khor1    2:1 | Why we wished to expound our affairs 06Khor1    2:1 | Why we wished to expound our affairs from Greek sources although 06Khor1    2:2 | references to the affairs of our nation, yet we have mentioned 06Khor1    2:2 | affairs of our nation, yet we have mentioned only the Greek 06Khor1    2:2 | the Greek historians from whom we have promised to present the 06Khor1    2:2 | to present the account of our genealogy 06Khor1    2:4 | let no one here consider us to be unlearned and defame 06Khor1    2:4 | to be unlearned and defame us as uneducated and ignorant in 06Khor1    2:4 | uneducated and ignorant in that we have described him who was 06Khor1    2:6 | many other similar reasons for our calling him king of the 06Khor1    2:6 | for the sake of abbreviating our account let what we have 06Khor1    2:6 | abbreviating our account let what we have said about him be 06Khor1    2:7 | nations’ kings and temples - as we find the ones who urged 06Khor1    2:8 | Men whose names we know for certain collected these 06Khor1    2:11 | to indicate the usefulness to us of the information in the 06Khor1    3:1 | Concerning the unscholarly habits of our first kings and princes 06Khor1    3:2 | leave the unscholarly habits of our first ancestors without a word 06Khor1    3:2 | at the very beginning of our work the reason for reprehending 06Khor1    3:3 | similar efforts are worthy of our eulogies. Through these, I say 06Khor1    3:3 | Through these, I say, when we read their accounts, we become 06Khor1    3:3 | when we read their accounts, we become informed about the course 06Khor1    3:3 | course of the world, and we learn about the state of 06Khor1    3:3 | the state of civilization when we peruse such wise discourses and 06Khor1    3:3 | who undertook such studies, that we aspire. So, then it is 06Khor1    3:3 | then it is clear to us all that our kings and 06Khor1    3:3 | clear to us all that our kings and other forefathers were 06Khor1    3:4 | For although we are a small country and 06Khor1    3:4 | deeds have been performed in our land worthy of being recorded 06Khor1    3:5 | the world, how appropriate is our reproach of such men in 06Khor1    3:7 | that today are used among us for books with innumerable accounts 06Khor1    3:9 | Therefore it is superfluous for us to say anything more about 06Khor1    3:10 | that from the beginnings of our nation up to the present 06Khor1    3:10 | great task and to present us with this request - to write 06Khor1    3:10 | to write the history of our nation in a long and 06Khor1    3:12 | effort, provided that one of our countrymen be found who will 06Khor1    3:13 | the divine Scriptures concur until we necessarily reach the pagan narratives 06Khor1    3:13 | pagan narratives; and from these we shall take whatever we consider 06Khor1    3:13 | these we shall take whatever we consider reliable 06Khor1    4:2 | someone to say the “summit,” we must consider briefly why the 06Khor1    4:2 | race that is credible to us 06Khor1    4:6 | And not only according to our cycle of the four seasons 06Khor1    4:6 | of the years differ from ours, especially from the biblical years 06Khor1    4:7 | So we should here indicate their opinions 06Khor1    4:7 | indicate their opinions according to our ability and write down accurately 06Khor1    4:7 | length of the present work we shall leave these matters to 06Khor1    4:7 | off this account here; and we shall now begin with what 06Khor1    4:7 | shall now begin with what we consider reliable 06Khor1    4:15 | Now the rest of our speculations about him we shall 06Khor1    4:15 | of our speculations about him we shall defer to the place 06Khor1    4:15 | defer to the place of our choosing. Here let us speak 06Khor1    4:15 | of our choosing. Here let us speak of what is ready 06Khor1    4:23 | impious [cf. Gen. 5:24]. The cause for this we shall set out later 06Khor1    4:25 | prophecy, saying: “He will give us rest from work and the 06Khor1    4:25 | work and the toil of our hands and from the earth 06Khor1    4:28 | For he well said “from our deeds,” which is from lawlessness 06Khor1    4:28 | toil of hands,” with which we work filthiness 06Khor1    5:2 | times from the beginning to our own day, and even more 06Khor1    5:4 | We shall begin our exposition with 06Khor1    5:4 | We shall begin our exposition with these, as far 06Khor1    5:4 | possible and according to what we have found to be trustworthy 06Khor1    5:4 | the old stories, and on our part with absolutely no falsification 06Khor1    5:39 | Yapheth third, although according to our translation of the Bible he 06Khor1    5:40 | Noah and third from Ham, we do not find placed in 06Khor1    5:40 | do not find placed in our translation or anywhere among the 06Khor1    5:41 | But we have found him so placed 06Khor1    5:41 | what he said seemed to us reliable 06Khor1    5:42 | Ethiopian, and they have persuaded us that this was indeed the 06Khor1    5:43 | After this we shall say the following: although 06Khor1    5:43 | have not come down to us, and there is nothing certain 06Khor1    5:43 | himself and certainly not about our Yapheth, yet the genealogy above 06Khor1    5:43 | to Abraham and Ninos and our Aram. For Ara is the 06Khor1    5:44 | trustworthy in all things, tells us all this, saying as follows 06Khor1    5:45 | Likewise he counts our genealogy from Hayk to Ara 06Khor1    5:46 | And Abydenus tells us this in his first section 06Khor1    5:47 | follows: “At the beginning of our work we began to write 06Khor1    5:47 | the beginning of our work we began to write down in 06Khor1    5:47 | from the royal archives. But we received a command from kings 06Khor1    5:47 | ancestors and not to spend our time uselessly,” and so on 06Khor1    5:48 | strangers to the truth in our opinion are those who say 06Khor1    5:50 | We have truly found these things 06Khor1    5:50 | Arias and many others, yet we attribute them to the Greeks 06Khor1    5:50 | them to the Greeks since we have learned from them 06Khor1    6:2 | Choosing to the best of our ability what is reliable from 06Khor1    6:2 | is reliable from many sources, we have set out the generations 06Khor1    6:4 | if you are grateful for our vigils and efforts, O friend 06Khor1    6:4 | of learning and patron of our labors, I shall briefly recapitulate 06Khor1    6:10 | him, which are inapposite for us to repeat now 06Khor1    6:20 | that have come down to us through writers called Gorgias and 06Khor1    6:20 | third one called David, these we must repeat, though briefly 06Khor1    6:21 | that have come down to us by tradition and that many 06Khor1    6:28 | is of no concern to us 06Khor1    7:2 | in whose times lived Hayk our ancestor, many different writers tell 06Khor1    7:4 | allegory, which the course of our narrative does not allow use 06Khor1    7:7 | For if we were to try to introduce 06Khor1    7:7 | to try to introduce into our history all events from the 06Khor1    7:7 | of the tower up to our own time for your edification 06Khor1    7:7 | for your edification, when would we arrive at the narrative of 06Khor1    7:7 | the task that lies before us is long, and time for 06Khor1    7:8 | shall begin to show you our own history-whence and how 06Khor1    9:2 | image are as those of our gods, whose fortune and destiny 06Khor1    9:6 | with despatch. And the pleasure we shall derive from the fulfillment 06Khor1    9:6 | derive from the fulfillment of our wishes I well know will 06Khor1    9:12 | only the reliable history of our own race and brought it 06Khor1    9:14 | Through this we are assured of the order 06Khor1    9:14 | assured of the order of our tales and repeat them now 06Khor1    9:14 | now for your curiosity, extending our ancestral principalities as far back 06Khor1    9:19 | stop here, for it is our proposal not to write a 06Khor1    9:19 | but to attempt to indicate our first and original ancestors 06Khor1    9:20 | From this same book we shall begin: Yapetost’ē, Merod, Sirat’ 06Khor1    9:21 | others in order, about whom we spoke earlier 06Khor1    11:12 | the force of Bēl, let us try to reach the place 06Khor1    11:13 | so that either we may die and our possessions 06Khor1    11:13 | either we may die and our possessions will fall in servitude 06Khor1    11:13 | showing him the success of our arms, we may scatter his 06Khor1    11:13 | the success of our arms, we may scatter his host and 06Khor1    11:28 | Now our country is called Hayk’ after 06Khor1    11:28 | Hayk’ after the name of our ancestor Hayk 06Khor1    12:2 | related in the book. But we shall set out only what 06Khor1    12:2 | only what is necessary to our collection 06Khor1    12:5 | begat Aramaneak in Babylon, as we said above 06Khor1    12:9 | renowned, just as those of our own time are now famous 06Khor1    12:12 | day journey, as one of our countrymen said, for a well 06Khor1    12:14 | that in many places in our land there were dwelling a 06Khor1    12:14 | men before the arrival of our original ancestor Hayk 06Khor1    12:18 | throat of Sharay, they say, we do not have the barns 06Khor1    12:30 | but how this took place we shall narrate in its own 06Khor1    12:34 | This Geḷam, as we said, after some years of 06Khor1    12:38 | his name all races call our land: like the Greeks, Armenia 06Khor1    12:39 | whose time, if you wish we shall set forth outside this 06Khor1    12:39 | forth outside this book, or we shall omit them; otherwise we 06Khor1    12:39 | we shall omit them; otherwise we shall include them in this 06Khor1    13:2 | Because it seemed pleasing to us to regard this work that 06Khor1    13:2 | to regard this work that we have undertaken at your command 06Khor1    13:2 | festivities of banquets and drinking - we have decided to discuss briefly 06Khor1    13:10 | suffice, for the task before us does not allow us to 06Khor1    13:10 | before us does not allow us to linger at the threshold 06Khor1    13:10 | linger at the threshold of our history 06Khor1    14:2 | We shall expound with but a 06Khor1    14:7 | But now we have to speak about his 06Khor1    14:16 | calling the western part of our country First and Second, and 06Khor1    14:17 | Greek side does not please us; others may think as they 06Khor1    14:18 | all, the nations living around us call our country 06Khor1    14:18 | nations living around us call our country 06Khor1    14:19 | by him; but let what we have said be sufficient 06Khor1    15:14 | him back to life, fulfilling our wish and pleasure. Therefore, from 06Khor1    15:14 | be worshipped and honored by us, as they fulfill our pleasures 06Khor1    15:14 | by us, as they fulfill our pleasures and accomplish our desires 06Khor1    15:14 | fulfill our pleasures and accomplish our desires 06Khor1    16:3 | purity of waters and land we must build a city and 06Khor1    16:3 | and royal residence, so that we may spend a fourth part 06Khor1    16:3 | the other three cooler seasons we shall spend in Nineveh 06Khor1    16:8 | of the aqueduct nowadays, as we hear, men of the region 06Khor1    16:20 | of this site and construction we have not heard from anyone 06Khor1    16:20 | from anyone with accuracy, so we are unwilling to include it 06Khor1    16:20 | unwilling to include it in our history. But we merely say 06Khor1    16:20 | it in our history. But we merely say that of all 06Khor1    16:20 | of all royal works, as we have heard, this is considered 06Khor1    17:8 | all; only Ninuas remained, as we said above 06Khor1    17:12 | So we have explained the cause and 06Khor1    18:3 | Mar Abas Catina seems to us more reliable than this, for 06Khor1    18:4 | Furthermore the fables of our own land confirm the learned 06Khor1    18:6 | But this is enough; we must now tell of what 06Khor1    19:2 | greatest men and ancestors of our nation, whatever stories concern them 06Khor1    19:2 | in these matters, from whom we have attempted to make a 06Khor1    19:3 | And we claim to be truthful in 06Khor1    19:3 | truthful in this history through our diligence and faithfulness. According to 06Khor1    19:3 | faithfulness. According to these principles our collection has been made, as 06Khor1    19:3 | is of no import to us 06Khor1    19:4 | descendants indicate the truth of our labor 06Khor1    19:6 | son Zamesea, that is, Ninuas, we can know for certain the 06Khor1    20:1 | AGREEMENT OF THE GENEALOGY OF OUR NATION WITH THOSE OF THE 06Khor1    20:10 | in Africa that survive to our own time. It truly reads 06Khor1    20:10 | flight by the robber Joshua we, the princes of the Canaanites 06Khor1    20:11 | One of these was our most honorable K’ananidas in Armenia 06Khor1    20:12 | And we have discovered for a certain 06Khor1    20:63 | He is the son of our Ara, called Ara by Semiramis 06Khor1    20:63 | entrusted the task of governing our country to him 06Khor1    21:7 | would be too much if we were to repeat in this 06Khor1    22:2 | what is least important from our account, we shall speak of 06Khor1    22:2 | least important from our account, we shall speak of what is 06Khor1    22:3 | or Ninos I say was our Paroyr in the time of 06Khor1    22:4 | period when the descendants of our original ancestor acquired the status 06Khor1    22:5 | Therefore it is right for us now to set to a 06Khor1    22:5 | the basis for such matters we considered it right that we 06Khor1    22:5 | we considered it right that we ourselves should read the four 06Khor1    22:7 | He attracted to himself our valiant Prince Paroyr, promising him 06Khor1    22:11 | in the earlier chapters above we blamed the unscholarly habits and 06Khor1    22:11 | unscholarly habits and inclinations of our first ancestors, the same is 06Khor1    22:12 | of their annals, whereas since our own people did not think 06Khor1    22:13 | were to ask: “Whence did we thus learn the names of 06Khor1    22:13 | thus learn the names of our ancestors and the deeds of 06Khor1    22:13 | as prefects and governors of our land appointed by them and 06Khor1    23:1 | The order of our kings and their number from 06Khor1    23:2 | pass to the number of our great men, especially the kings 06Khor1    23:3 | For these men descended from our kings are dear to me 06Khor1    23:5 | indeed fortune, long ago escaped us 06Khor1    23:6 | order of the kings of our nation alongside theirs. The national 06Khor1    23:6 | theirs. The national monarchs of our land were those men whose 06Khor1    23:6 | were those men whose names we shall inscribe below 06Khor1    23:7 | And that the kingdom of our nation truly existed at that 06Khor1    23:8 | this verifies the existence of our kingdom at that time 06Khor1    23:9 | But as we set out the order of 06Khor1    23:9 | the order of the kings, we shall place beside it that 06Khor1    23:18 | Our first king crowned by the 06Khor1    23:22 | brought and settled him in our country with great honor. From 06Khor1    23:23 | But what efforts our kings made to constrain them 06Khor1    23:23 | their lives for worshipping Gog, we shall later relate methodically 06Khor1    24:2 | Now before we undertake the history of Tigran 06Khor1    24:2 | who was the ninth of our native crowned kings, strong and 06Khor1    24:2 | victorious over other rulers, let us recount what is most important 06Khor1    24:2 | important for the coherence of our work 06Khor1    24:4 | killed him and fled to us 06Khor1    24:5 | of these, that is, Sanasar, our valiant ancestor Skayordi settled in 06Khor1    24:5 | settled in the southwest of our land, near the borders of 06Khor1    24:6 | showing thereafter friendly services to our kings, were honored with the 06Khor1    24:8 | This is the reason for our remembering Senek’erim 06Khor1    25:2 | But let us now pass on to discuss 06Khor1    25:3 | for he, of all our kings, was the most powerful 06Khor1    25:5 | He extended the borders of our territory and established them at 06Khor1    25:7 | showing his valor he glorified our nation. Those who had been 06Khor1    25:11 | were the benefits brought to our country by Tigran, son of 06Khor1    25:11 | feasts, and - as those among our ancients who sang to the 06Khor1    26:2 | what way,” he said, “will we be able to loose the 06Khor1    27:9 | and launched an attack on our empire 06Khor1    27:13 | First we both hacked each other’s body 06Khor1    27:13 | that shines like the sun we made a sea of blood 06Khor1    27:14 | and later with other arms, we fought for several hours 06Khor1    27:16 | is about to come upon us in a violent assault 06Khor1    27:17 | of the gods, by offering us useful advice in word and 06Khor1    27:17 | will not hope to become our fellow sovereign?’’ 06Khor1    28:4 | This, furthermore, we cannot now accomplish through money 06Khor1    28:4 | money or deceitful words unless we now act as I wish 06Khor1    28:6 | abroad as will freely enable us, through her journeying, to plan 06Khor1    29:2 | this world has been granted us by the gods than a 06Khor1    29:2 | from outside do not disturb us, and those that do reach 06Khor1    29:2 | and those that do reach us are quickly driven away; while 06Khor1    29:3 | the love that exists between us, so that we may both 06Khor1    29:3 | exists between us, so that we may both be secure on 06Khor1    29:3 | every side and also keep our empires secure and stable 06Khor1    29:5 | Be well our fellow sovereign and beloved brother 06Khor1    31:8 | the dragon because Azhdahak in our tongue is dragon 06Khor1    31:12 | amazed at the truth of our history, how we have revealed 06Khor1    31:12 | truth of our history, how we have revealed the secrets of 06Khor1    32:4 | reputation of heroic nature, what we are saying is true 06Khor1    32:7 | of whom the fables of our land say: Heaven was in 06Khor1    32:8 | With our own ears we have heard 06Khor1    32:8 | With our own ears we have heard some singing this 06Khor1    32:15 | other for the control of our country. Therefore, Arshak the Great 06Khor1    33:1 | of Tewtamus; the participation of our Zarmayr with a small Ethiopian 06Khor1    33:2 | have imposed great labor upon us: brevity and rapidity; that our 06Khor1    33:2 | us: brevity and rapidity; that our account should be elegant and 06Khor1    33:2 | of what opposes falsehood; that we should carry the narrative from 06Khor1    33:5 | of the Spirit indicates to us similar ranks 06Khor1    33:6 | But we see that your desire goes 06Khor1    33:7 | But either we must narrate these matters at 06Khor1    33:8 | of your great haste, behold we have not indicated in their 06Khor1    33:8 | about the Ilian war; but we have added it here 06Khor1    33:9 | I cannot say whether we are here acting like a 06Khor1    33:9 | are important and worthy of our history 06Khor1    33:11 | and that our Zarmayr under the rule of 06Khor1    34:2 | and why do you trouble us for those absurd and incoherent 06Khor1    34:7 | But you ask us to explain the reason for 06Khor1    34:8 | an undesirable matter and increasing our labor 06Khor1    34:9 | youthful years and immature understanding we shall provide them 06Khor1    34:10 | Therefore we shall here fulfill your desired 06Khor1    34:13 | impossibilities, which for your sake we made possible, this too we 06Khor1    34:13 | we made possible, this too we shall accomplish. The stories and 06Khor1    34:13 | stories and deeds of which we speak, and especially those whose 06Khor1    34:13 | especially those whose recital offends our ears, today I shall set 06Khor1    34:14 | an undertaking is hateful to us, for we did not speak 06Khor1    34:14 | is hateful to us, for we did not speak of them 06Khor1    34:14 | not speak of them in our first book, nor did we 06Khor1    34:14 | our first book, nor did we deem them worthy of inclusion 06Khor1    34:23 | proved impossible for him. As we said above, for the sake 06Khor2    1:1 | Period in the History of Our Ancestors 06Khor2    1:2 | book the various events of our own country, beginning with the 06Khor2    1:2 | whom he made king of our nation. The kings of our 06Khor2    1:2 | our nation. The kings of our country who came after him 06Khor2    1:3 | very briefly of what concerns us and omit the rest 06Khor2    2:2 | As we have said, sixty years after 06Khor2    2:10 | third of this world, as we learn from the fourth book 06Khor2    3:3 | The latter, as we wrote in our first book 06Khor2    3:3 | latter, as we wrote in our first book, was a valiant 06Khor2    3:3 | from among the descendants of our ancestor Hayk and others 06Khor2    3:4 | now a great principality in our land 06Khor2    3:7 | But let us turn back and tell of 06Khor2    4:2 | their relations - about half of our country 06Khor2    4:3 | he stayed many days, as we must admit, for they were 06Khor2    4:4 | forces of all regions of our country, he reached the borders 06Khor2    5:2 | battle with an attack from our side. Therefore, willingly or unwillingly 06Khor2    6:1 | the west and north of our country 06Khor2    6:9 | he organized the army of our country, and leaving overseers he 06Khor2    7:18 | race of kings descended from our ancestor Hayk, who were called 06Khor2    8:5 | house of Cadmos, whose names we set out in one of 06Khor2    8:7 | that in the first book we forgot to mention this illustrious 06Khor2    8:24 | But we have also forgotten the grim 06Khor2    9:1 | Concerning our Arshak the First and his 06Khor2    9:5 | split off and came to our land and settled for a 06Khor2    10:2 | We shall begin our narrative for 06Khor2    10:2 | We shall begin our narrative for you from the 06Khor2    10:3 | which concerned the history of our kings. These books had been 06Khor2    10:4 | no one doubt this, for we have seen that archive with 06Khor2    10:4 | have seen that archive with our own eyes 06Khor2    10:5 | Caesarea is a guarantee, which our blessed teacher Mashtots’ had had 06Khor2    10:6 | found all the acts of our first kings down to Abgar 06Khor2    11:1 | Concerning our Artashēs the First and his 06Khor2    11:6 | the prisoners from Iberia, as we narrated above. And he entrusted 06Khor2    12:4 | he had them brought to our country to be set up 06Khor2    12:9 | before they had arrived in our land the sad news of 06Khor2    13:2 | doubtful of these same events we made many researches 06Khor2    13:3 | because we heard from some histories that 06Khor2    13:5 | But we have found the period of 06Khor2    13:6 | are many who say that our Artashēs took Chroesus prisoner and 06Khor2    14:3 | troops had attacked and invaded our country 06Khor2    14:5 | with him, he returned to our country 06Khor2    15:1 | The attack on us of Pompey, the Roman general 06Khor2    24:12 | he proposed to me that we should seek an oath from 06Khor2    24:12 | Judaea, that he would receive us and give us hereditary lands 06Khor2    24:12 | would receive us and give us hereditary lands in our own 06Khor2    24:12 | give us hereditary lands in our own native land because we 06Khor2    24:12 | our own native land because we had recently suffered insults in 06Khor2    24:13 | said to him: ’Why do we deceive ourselves with ancient tales 06Khor2    25:2 | Herod, king of Judaea, and our King Arsham 06Khor2    26:6 | At that time was born our Savior Jesus Christ, the Son 06Khor2    27:1 | mention of the family of our Illuminator 06Khor2    27:6 | in the chronological order of our history or in the order 06Khor2    27:6 | or in the order that we have adopted for our account 06Khor2    27:6 | that we have adopted for our account, yet because it was 06Khor2    27:6 | cause of the conversion of our Armenian nation, for the sake 06Khor2    27:6 | sake of honoring these men we shall set them in this 06Khor2    27:7 | And then later we shall indicate the time of 06Khor2    27:7 | when in the course of our narrative we reach the period 06Khor2    27:7 | the course of our narrative we reach the period of the 06Khor2    28:1 | brothers, from whom are descended our Illuminator and his kin 06Khor2    28:9 | But we shall narrate the circumstances of 06Khor2    30:1 | to Marinus, when they saw our Savior Christ, which proved the 06Khor2    30:5 | went to Jerusalem to see our Savior Christ on account of 06Khor2    31:6 | and it is sufficient for us both 06Khor2    31:9 | But our Savior himself did not accept 06Khor2    33:2 | After the ascension of our Savior, Thomas the apostle, one 06Khor2    33:13 | whom he had set over our land and army 06Khor2    33:27 | Although we had previously heard of this 06Khor2    33:27 | from many people, Pilate informed us accurately about His miracles and 06Khor2    33:30 | But we commanded everyone to whom Jesus 06Khor2    33:30 | Him among the gods. And we threatened with death those who 06Khor2    34:1 | Concerning the martyrdom of our apostles 06Khor2    34:4 | All this, as we have said, others have related 06Khor2    34:4 | said, others have related before us, so we did not consider 06Khor2    34:4 | have related before us, so we did not consider it at 06Khor2    34:5 | been described by others before us 06Khor2    34:11 | We have recorded this very briefly 06Khor2    34:12 | lot. He was martyred among us in the city of Arebanus 06Khor2    36:2 | the various acts of Sanatruk we have considered nothing worthy of 06Khor2    36:4 | But we must say why he was 06Khor2    36:8 | But as far as we understand the matter it happened 06Khor2    42:9 | of the Arsacid family. This we shall describe in its own 06Khor2    47:6 | of his father. For as we have said, half of his 06Khor2    48:10 | This is accurately told us by Olympius, priest of Ani 06Khor2    48:10 | also many other deeds that we have to relate and to 06Khor2    49:3 | all this, as we said, is revealed to you 06Khor2    49:3 | songs of the storytellers. But we too shall recall them briefly 06Khor2    50:1 | incursion of the Alans among us and their defeat and the 06Khor2    50:2 | of Georgia, spread out over our land in a great host 06Khor2    50:16 | For our kings had the custom of 06Khor2    50:18 | Artavazd and many others, whom we did not consider it important 06Khor2    50:18 | name now, but later when we reach whatever they did 06Khor2    53:2 | last Arshak, king of Persia, our Artashēs made his homonym, Arshak’s 06Khor2    53:3 | for that reason rebelled against our king 06Khor2    59:2 | the days of Artashēs, therefore we have divided them into many 06Khor2    59:2 | them into many chapters lest our readers be wearied by the 06Khor2    59:3 | Although everything else that we recorded in the preceding chapters 06Khor2    59:4 | navigation on the lakes of our country, nor travel over the 06Khor2    60:5 | But our Artashēs was not disloyal to 06Khor2    60:9 | regions of Assyria and ordered our Artashēs to go to Persia 06Khor2    60:9 | who gave this story to us; he met Artashēs in Media 06Khor2    60:15 | tomb were willing deaths, as we said above 06Khor2    60:16 | This sovereign, so beloved to our country, reigned forty-one years 06Khor2    61:7 | Therefore, even in our own time many smiths, following 06Khor2    61:8 | of the matter is as we said above 06Khor2    62:5 | and they note: “Enlarge for us our inheritance, for it is 06Khor2    62:5 | they note: “Enlarge for us our inheritance, for it is cramped 06Khor2    62:5 | for it is cramped, since we have multiplied greatly 06Khor2    62:7 | is even more cramping for us.” Tiran paid no heed but 06Khor2    63:12 | It is superfluous for us to say more about the 06Khor2    64:4 | behalf and at his command our Tigran also invaded the Mediterranean 06Khor2    64:6 | from Korchēk’ and some from our region - I mean the ancient 06Khor2    64:7 | We shall not discuss them by 06Khor2    64:7 | all is not clear to us, partly because we are avoiding 06Khor2    64:7 | clear to us, partly because we are avoiding the labor of 06Khor2    64:8 | For this reason we shall say nothing about those 06Khor2    64:8 | although you have frequently begged us to do so, but we 06Khor2    64:8 | us to do so, but we shall speak only of the 06Khor2    64:8 | of the subsequent events that we know for certain 06Khor2    64:9 | So far as was possible we have avoided superfluous and elaborate 06Khor2    64:9 | followed to the best of our ability only what was right 06Khor2    64:10 | from other sources or from our own knowledge. Observing the same 06Khor2    64:11 | to impose superfluous tasks on us, nor by few or many 06Khor2    64:11 | or many words to turn our whole great reliable labor into 06Khor2    66:2 | Bardaisan of Edessa tells us about this 06Khor2    66:4 | the cult of idols in our country 06Khor2    66:8 | is from this history that we have taken our account and 06Khor2    66:8 | history that we have taken our account and repeated it for 06Khor2    67:2 | As we said, after Vaḷarsh his son 06Khor2    68:2 | The divine Scriptures show us that the twenty-first patriarch 06Khor2    68:13 | But here do not blame us as one who does superfluous 06Khor2    68:13 | does superfluous work in that we have again said what has 06Khor2    68:13 | been told. But know that we are happily repeating this again 06Khor2    68:13 | happily repeating this again because we wish our readers to be 06Khor2    68:13 | this again because we wish our readers to be fully informed 06Khor2    68:13 | informed about the relatives of our Illuminator 06Khor2    69:2 | Let us now pass through the list 06Khor2    69:3 | After Arshavir, as we said, Artashēs ruled for thirty 06Khor2    69:7 | But we shall give our account from 06Khor2    69:7 | But we shall give our account from the book of 06Khor2    70:2 | and, having been converted to our faith, was named Eleazar. He 06Khor2    70:3 | whom the Persians called Rastsohun. We have based our account on 06Khor2    70:3 | called Rastsohun. We have based our account on this and repeat 06Khor2    70:4 | is not the place for us now to repeat the fables 06Khor2    70:5 | Similarly we shall omit the goat’s suckling 06Khor2    70:6 | We shall recount only what is 06Khor2    71:4 | messengers and then returned to our country in great sadness and 06Khor2    72:7 | agree, so Khosrov returned to our land, not so much happy 06Khor2    73:4 | was Perozamat, the ancestor of our great family of Kamsarakan, of 06Khor2    73:4 | family of Kamsarakan, of whom we shall speak in his place 06Khor2    73:5 | But now we shall tell of what happened 06Khor2    74:8 | plain where the relics of our holy and great apostle Thaddaeus 06Khor2    74:10 | they say the mother of our holy and great Illuminator conceived 06Khor2    74:13 | saved only the one whom we say was created, or rather 06Khor2    75:5 | were martyred by Khosrov in our own land, and similarly after 06Khor2    75:6 | the names nor the places, we have not considered them important 06Khor2    75:7 | between Edessa and Harran, while our Khosrov supported neither side 06Khor2    75:8 | considering this to be accurate we shall repeat it for you 06Khor2    75:9 | of Trdat and after him, we have not erred through laziness 06Khor2    75:9 | laziness or negligence, nor have we set down anything in purposeful 06Khor2    75:10 | So having accurately gained our information in such matters from 06Khor2    75:10 | of wise men and antiquarians, we have given you a faithful 06Khor2    76:1 | Artashir’s attack against us, and his victory over the 06Khor2    76:4 | not in time to protect our land. Nor did he live 06Khor2    76:5 | Therefore Artashir freely invaded us and, putting the Greek army 06Khor2    77:2 | peace with Artashir, he divided our land and dug ditches to 06Khor2    77:10 | He governed our land like one of his 06Khor2    80:4 | this point the birth of our Illuminator took place, and by 06Khor2    80:5 | of preparing the way for our salvation 06Khor2    80:10 | the task of preaching to our country and of his high 06Khor2    81:12 | they say, is what among us is aristocratic and food for 06Khor2    81:13 | for the garments which among us are the robes of the 06Khor2    81:15 | So Mamgon, having come to our country against his will, met 06Khor2    82:2 | true history without chronology, therefore we made a detailed investigation and 06Khor2    83:2 | When Trdat arrived in our land he sent General Smbat 06Khor2    83:6 | his marriage became friendly with our King Trdat 06Khor2    84:2 | plans and plotted evil against our land. Inciting all the northern 06Khor2    84:9 | time is now suitable for us to plan and execute whatever 06Khor2    84:9 | to plan and execute whatever we wish. I have decided to 06Khor2    85:9 | But now we have to tell of the 06Khor2    86:11 | and note: “Whom then are we to worship instead of the 06Khor2    86:17 | We make bold to say that 06Khor2    86:18 | But let us now return to the story 06Khor2    87:10 | entourage and came to Trdat our king, while his brothers went 06Khor2    88:7 | And since Trdat our king had grown cold in 06Khor2    88:17 | But this is unbelievable to us, though others may think as 06Khor2    89:5 | of the Emperor Constantine to our King Trdat, that taking Saint 06Khor2    89:10 | who was baptizing him, and our Aristakēs and Euthalius of Edessa 06Khor2    90:10 | So we have explained the reasons for 06Khor2    91:2 | seventeenth year of Trdat’s reign we have found that our father 06Khor2    91:2 | reign we have found that our father and parent in the 06Khor2    91:4 | But let us explain why it is called 06Khor2    91:5 | them when they came among us; but knowing that all places 06Khor2    91:16 | who were the ministers of our Savior’s birth [cf. Luke 2:13] should also be 06Khor2    91:19 | From the eastern regions of our land he arose for us 06Khor2    91:19 | our land he arose for us as a true dawn, a 06Khor2    91:19 | flourishing in the courts of our God 06Khor2    91:20 | so many peoples and gathered us to an old age of 06Khor2    92:2 | hero and spiritual overseer of our illumination, the most truly king 06Khor2    92:2 | those made such by Christ, we must use very glorious speech 06Khor2    92:2 | and equal in austerity of our first leader and author of 06Khor2    92:2 | first leader and author of our salvation. It has pleased the 06Khor2    92:4 | and the second father of our illumination 06Khor2    92:5 | not merely by myself, let us pass on to the order 06Khor2    92:7 | or rather vain-glory, of our nation from the beginning to 06Khor2    92:9 | the lawlessness and impiety of our nation and their deeds worthy 06Khor2    92:11 | Socrates, or to speak in our terms, when the Hebrews in 06Khor2    92:11 | drink mixed with gall to our God 06Khor2    92:20 | things are truly so, let us console ourselves in our dangers 06Khor2    92:20 | let us console ourselves in our dangers. “For if they have 06Khor2    92:21 | God’s sake, what should be our words to God concerning the 06Khor2    92:21 | to God concerning the dangers we run from you, we whose 06Khor2    92:21 | dangers we run from you, we whose portion is danger and 06Khor2    92:23 | of you will provide for us; which of the doctors will 06Khor2    92:23 | encouragement and exhortation? Who in our journeys will carry our burdens 06Khor2    92:23 | in our journeys will carry our burdens, who on our arrival 06Khor2    92:23 | carry our burdens, who on our arrival will give us rest 06Khor2    92:23 | on our arrival will give us rest, who has prepared for 06Khor2    92:23 | rest, who has prepared for us a house or lodging 06Khor3    1:1 | Conclusion of the History of Our Fatherland: THERE is no study 06Khor3    1:1 | study of the antiquity’ of our land, nor can we go 06Khor3    1:1 | of our land, nor can we go through all that of 06Khor3    1:1 | Diodore are not available to us, so that by casting an 06Khor3    1:1 | casting an eye on them we could discuss everything without forgetting 06Khor3    1:1 | worthy of being recorded in our account 06Khor3    1:2 | But as far as our ability and the records permit 06Khor3    1:2 | ability and the records permit, we have given a faithful account 06Khor3    1:3 | do not censure or blame us, for behold we shall tell 06Khor3    1:3 | or blame us, for behold we shall tell you without error 06Khor3    1:3 | error about whatever happened in our own times, or a little 06Khor3    1:3 | Saint Gregory from the patriarchate. We shall deal with this history 06Khor3    1:3 | rather that desiring truth in our account, people may read very 06Khor3    1:3 | and avidly the history of our fatherland 06Khor3    2:3 | the time of Christ Himself our God. Unharmed, Vrt’anēs went to 06Khor3    3:3 | seeking them very ardently. And we know for certain that they 06Khor3    4:2 | As we find it said in the 06Khor3    4:2 | see the same thing in our own country 06Khor3    5:1 | princes of Greater Armenia, to our lord the emperor Caesar Constantius 06Khor3    5:2 | of your father Constantine with our King Trdat and do not 06Khor3    5:2 | the godless Persians, but help us with an army to make 06Khor3    5:4 | And we desire that you rule over 06Khor3    5:9 | good order you may serve us loyally 06Khor3    9:1 | The incursion among us by the northern nations in 06Khor3    9:2 | they made an incursion into our country with a great host 06Khor3    9:3 | prince of the Amatunik’, for our northern forces were with King 06Khor3    9:3 | enemy killed Mihran, cut down our northern forces, and put them 06Khor3    9:4 | But our eastern and western armies fell 06Khor3    10:6 | And he sent them to our country since he considered it 06Khor3    11:3 | he peacefully gained control of our land, making a treaty with 06Khor3    12:2 | Ormizd, established greater friendship toward our King Tiran, even supporting and 06Khor3    13:4 | Then our King Tiran came down to 06Khor3    15:3 | said to his troops: “Let us not heed the orders of 06Khor3    15:3 | and murders his saints. Let us not accompany this impious king 06Khor3    15:7 | destined for immortality, to Tiran our governor, greetings 06Khor3    15:8 | army that you sent to us has been taken off by 06Khor3    15:8 | its general and has deserted. We would have been able with 06Khor3    15:8 | would have been able with our innumerable forces to send after 06Khor3    15:8 | them and halt them, but we allowed them to go for 06Khor3    15:8 | lest the Persians say of us that it was by force 06Khor3    15:9 | swear by Ares, who granted us the throne, and by Athena 06Khor3    15:9 | and by Athena, who gave us the victory, that on our 06Khor3    15:9 | us the victory, that on our return with our invincible might 06Khor3    15:9 | that on our return with our invincible might we shall destroy 06Khor3    15:9 | return with our invincible might we shall destroy you and your 06Khor3    15:11 | usual lack of perseverance of our nation, they dispersed each one 06Khor3    17:6 | Shapuh, king of kings, in our bounty have remembered our dear 06Khor3    17:6 | in our bounty have remembered our dear brother Tiran, king of 06Khor3    17:7 | We are truly convinced that you 06Khor3    17:7 | kept firm your love for us by not coming with the 06Khor3    17:8 | And your first action we know you undertook to prevent 06Khor3    17:8 | about to do. So, when our garrison lost heart and departed 06Khor3    17:8 | were the cause. Therefore, in our anger we made their general 06Khor3    17:8 | cause. Therefore, in our anger we made their general drink bull’s 06Khor3    17:9 | And we shall in no way harm 06Khor3    17:9 | no way harm your kingdom, we swear by the great god 06Khor3    17:9 | god Mihr. Only hurry to us that we may make plans 06Khor3    17:9 | Only hurry to us that we may make plans for our 06Khor3    17:9 | we may make plans for our common advantage 06Khor3    17:11 | that saintly man by whom our land was illuminated, according to 06Khor3    19:4 | he sent a letter to our King Arshak 06Khor3    19:6 | The emperor Valentinian Augustus, with our colleague and coemperor the Caesar 06Khor3    19:7 | blessings that you derived from us from earlier times up to 06Khor3    19:7 | from them and near to us 06Khor3    19:8 | to join with our forces and fight against them 06Khor3    19:8 | and with favorable letters from our generals you should send the 06Khor3    20:4 | was the natural custom in our land. For lepers were persecuted 06Khor3    20:13 | Thenceforth one could see that our country was not like uncivilized 06Khor3    23:7 | make ready so that when we come, we may find a 06Khor3    23:7 | so that when we come, we may find a hunt worthy 06Khor3    25:4 | and for that reason asked our King Arshak to accompany him 06Khor3    26:2 | Shapuh reached our city of Tigranakert 06Khor3    28:2 | walls, cried out: “Depart from us, Shapuh, lest we bring even 06Khor3    28:2 | Depart from us, Shapuh, lest we bring even greater disaster in 06Khor3    28:2 | you this second time than we did the first time 06Khor3    28:8 | and arrows and lances, so our troops were wounded and dazed 06Khor3    29:12 | begged them not to harm our country but to take the 06Khor3    29:15 | of the Armenian nation, to our lord the Emperor Valens Augustus 06Khor3    29:16 | imperial majesty not think that we have rebelled for hatred of 06Khor3    29:16 | ourselves to have some strength we have sent a marauding band 06Khor3    29:16 | of Shapuh unless someone saves us from his hands, we have 06Khor3    29:16 | saves us from his hands, we have helped him with a 06Khor3    29:17 | For that reason, he ruined our country and took it captive 06Khor3    29:17 | digging up the bones of our fathers from their tombs 06Khor3    29:18 | So accept what we did and keep firm your 06Khor3    29:18 | firm your earlier love for us, and we shall pay you 06Khor3    29:18 | earlier love for us, and we shall pay you devoted service 06Khor3    30:3 | you profess the faith with us, our father Macedonius will save 06Khor3    30:3 | profess the faith with us, our father Macedonius will save you 06Khor3    34:3 | by him they returned to our country 06Khor3    34:6 | you were not merciful to our relatives the Kamsarakan, who were 06Khor3    36:1 | The misfortunes brought upon us by Mehrujan, and the reign 06Khor3    37:3 | his forces to march against us, with the exception of his 06Khor3    37:8 | the Persian youth turned back, ours followed them closely. And just 06Khor3    37:9 | the Persians began to surround ours, they withdrew behind the protective 06Khor3    37:15 | When the sun rose opposite our army the reflections from their 06Khor3    37:15 | the bravest armed men among our princes. Merely at the sight 06Khor3    37:15 | Persian host lost heart, and ours too a little for they 06Khor3    37:16 | a stiff breeze blew from our side toward that of the 06Khor3    38:2 | the wars were over and our land was peaceful, Nersēs the 06Khor3    40:6 | He came as king to our country in the fifty-fifth 06Khor3    41:4 | came and took possession of our land and ruled over it 06Khor3    42:5 | over the western regions of our country, in the Greek sector 06Khor3    42:12 | each one’s territory, and although we needed nothing from you, nonetheless 06Khor3    42:12 | you, nonetheless in accordance with our royal solicitude we have had 06Khor3    42:12 | accordance with our royal solicitude we have had mercy on you 06Khor3    42:12 | shepherds without a good overseer, we have therefore made as your 06Khor3    42:14 | We swear by fire and water 06Khor3    42:14 | of my immortal ancestors that we have done this without deceit 06Khor3    42:15 | those who do not obey our commands, we have ordered their 06Khor3    42:15 | do not obey our commands, we have ordered their domains with 06Khor3    48:5 | of the Greek sector, to our lord Khosrov, king of the 06Khor3    48:6 | You yourself, lord, know our loyalty for our late King 06Khor3    48:6 | lord, know our loyalty for our late King Arshak, which we 06Khor3    48:6 | our late King Arshak, which we held inviolate until the day 06Khor3    48:6 | of his death. And now we have decided to serve you 06Khor3    48:6 | fidelity if you confirm for us these three conditions by a 06Khor3    48:6 | pact. First, not to remember our transgressions in that we waged 06Khor3    48:6 | remember our transgressions in that we waged war against you by 06Khor3    48:7 | Second, that you return to us all our hereditary lands in 06Khor3    48:7 | you return to us all our hereditary lands in the Persian 06Khor3    48:8 | find a way to disentangle us from the emperor without them 06Khor3    48:8 | Greeks disturbing the estates that we possess in this sector 06Khor3    48:9 | seal of the cross: when we see it, we shall hasten 06Khor3    48:9 | cross: when we see it, we shall hasten to your service 06Khor3    48:10 | Be well, our lord.’’ 06Khor3    48:13 | to General Gazavon and all our princes, many greetings 06Khor3    48:14 | Rejoice, for we are well and were happy 06Khor3    48:14 | news of your greeting. And we have sent this pact in 06Khor3    48:15 | remember your transgressions, which indeed we did not consider as transgressions 06Khor3    48:15 | whom you were serving, for we hope that you will be 06Khor3    48:15 | will be the same toward us 06Khor3    48:16 | you your hereditary lands that we confiscated to the court, with 06Khor3    48:16 | the exception of those that we have granted to various people 06Khor3    48:16 | entered into the archives of our father, the lord Shapuh, king 06Khor3    48:16 | kings. But in their place, we shall fill your needs from 06Khor3    48:17 | Third, we shall disentangle you from the 06Khor3    49:6 | desert, and he cared for our country like those who are 06Khor3    50:4 | the instigation and warning of our princes, immediately sent his own 06Khor3    51:2 | the princes and bishops of our land, the causes of our 06Khor3    51:2 | our land, the causes of our illumination, descended from father to 06Khor3    51:12 | wrote the following edict to our King Vṙamshapuh 06Khor3    51:17 | commander of your army by our command, and you will give 06Khor3    51:18 | of the guilty families that we confiscated to the court you 06Khor3    51:18 | their ancestral ranks. For this we have ordered to be written 06Khor3    51:18 | ordered to be written in our archives 06Khor3    51:22 | Vṙamshapuh ruled our country and was subject to 06Khor3    52:3 | Therefore Vṙam ordered our King Vṙamshapuh to go down 06Khor3    52:8 | sent a man honored in our land and faithful to himself 06Khor3    53:9 | Arising from prayer he fashioned our alphabet with Rufinus, who gave 06Khor3    54:2 | kept the same friendship with our country and with our king 06Khor3    54:2 | with our country and with our king Vṙamshapuh, but he did 06Khor3    54:3 | arrived, bringing the script for our language, and at the command 06Khor3    55:24 | We have been forced to narrate 06Khor3    56:6 | Thus our land remained in anarchy for 06Khor3    56:7 | and he sought vengeance from our land. He made peace with 06Khor3    57:2 | to the western regions of our land to the Greek part 06Khor3    57:5 | I know that news of our distress has reached the ears 06Khor3    57:6 | They so hated us that they did not even 06Khor3    57:7 | your majesty not to render us powerless in our own see 06Khor3    57:7 | to render us powerless in our own see but to order 06Khor3    57:7 | see but to order that we and our teaching be received 06Khor3    57:7 | to order that we and our teaching be received 06Khor3    57:11 | Sahak, bishop of Armenia, to our teacher Atticus, bishop of the 06Khor3    57:12 | Trusting in your holiness we have sent the teacher of 06Khor3    57:12 | have sent the teacher of our land, Mesrop, and my grandson 06Khor3    57:12 | from them the plight of our affliction you may help us 06Khor3    57:12 | our affliction you may help us by interceding with the great 06Khor3    57:17 | God for your preparing for us a refuge. Therefore, I inform 06Khor3    57:17 | that for the relief of our affliction I have sent our 06Khor3    57:17 | our affliction I have sent our teacher Mesrop and my grandson 06Khor3    57:26 | We have ordered your letters to 06Khor3    57:26 | informed of what you wrote. We greatly blamed you for wholeheartedly 06Khor3    57:26 | not even deigning to inform us by letter 06Khor3    57:27 | And we especially blame you for this 06Khor3    57:27 | disdaining the learned men in our city, you have sought scholarly 06Khor3    57:28 | Therefore we were pleased with our subjects 06Khor3    57:28 | Therefore we were pleased with our subjects for scorning such teaching 06Khor3    57:28 | But because Mesrop later told us that the completion of this 06Khor3    57:28 | was due to divine grace, we have written that they should 06Khor3    57:29 | We have also ordered a city 06Khor3    57:29 | a refuge for yourselves and our armies 06Khor3    57:30 | And on your account, we have made Vardan, the son 06Khor3    57:35 | We offer many thanks to God 06Khor3    57:35 | such a barbarous nation. Yet we do not absolve you from 06Khor3    57:35 | Nersēs your blessed fathers for us 06Khor3    57:36 | And we are even more amazed as 06Khor3    57:36 | the fountain of the church, our father Saint John, by whom 06Khor3    57:37 | of the Spirit - at which we now rejoice 06Khor3    57:38 | accorded the authority to instruct our sector, and either to convert 06Khor3    57:39 | this Mesrop whom you sent we have ordained him ecclesiasticos 06Khor3    58:1 | Concerning the instruction of our western regions, and peace in 06Khor3    58:2 | had come up close to our borders. Having received the royal 06Khor3    59:2 | royal command, had come to our country and traveled through many 06Khor3    59:2 | and traveled through many of our provinces, he decided to build 06Khor3    60:9 | they were to translate into our language and bring back without 06Khor3    61:4 | fathers, anathematized Nestorius and confessed our Lord Jesus Christ as one 06Khor3    61:6 | Then our translators, whose names we mentioned 06Khor3    61:6 | Then our translators, whose names we mentioned earlier, arrived and found 06Khor3    61:8 | because they were ignorant of our technique their work was found 06Khor3    61:8 | the Great and Mesrop sent us to Alexandria to study elegant 06Khor3    62:3 | such fashion so too did we, reflecting the grace that continually 06Khor3    62:3 | the deeps of the archives, we went on to worship at 06Khor3    62:4 | With similar deliberate speed we entered Egypt, that famous land 06Khor3    62:9 | Although we wished to sail to Greece 06Khor3    62:9 | the force of the winds we reached Italy. After greeting the 06Khor3    62:9 | of saints Peter and Paul, we did not remain long in 06Khor3    62:9 | through Greece to Attica, where we stayed a while in Athens 06Khor3    62:10 | the end of the winter we set out for Byzantium, anxious 06Khor3    62:10 | out for Byzantium, anxious for our homeland 06Khor3    63:5 | So we must endure for a while 06Khor3    63:5 | while the man’s faults until we are able to arrange a 06Khor3    63:8 | before a Christian king that we denounced him I would be 06Khor3    63:10 | wild beast whose health is our punishment 06Khor3    63:11 | you would not agree with us that he should not be 06Khor3    63:11 | should not be king, now we wish that you should not 06Khor3    63:11 | that you should not be our priest 06Khor3    64:5 | he is guilty according to ours. But you will hear nothing 06Khor3    64:11 | But our princes sought from Vṙam another 06Khor3    65:2 | As we said, the Armenian princes were 06Khor3    65:6 | faith to remain loyal to our service and not to plan 06Khor3    65:6 | of destruction to Armenia at our hands and convert our benevolence 06Khor3    65:6 | at our hands and convert our benevolence into malevolence 06Khor3    65:13 | if anyone should say that we ought to write down what 06Khor3    65:13 | have never been brought to our ears by anyone with accuracy 06Khor3    65:13 | anyone with accuracy and that we are not willing to fabricate 06Khor3    65:14 | man with compassion equal to ours, and not, as the poets 06Khor3    66:6 | five years Samuel died in our country 06Khor3    67:3 | forces of Azerbaijan to enter our country. They arrived and camped 06Khor3    67:7 | We should speak of him in 06Khor3    67:7 | to prevent the length of our discourse from causing tedium to 06Khor3    67:7 | causing tedium to the readers, we shall leave this for another 06Khor3    67:7 | as for the early period we promised to compose one 06Khor3    68:5 | in chastity, as someone before us has wisely expressed it 06Khor3    68:9 | for in your widowhood, and we who have been deprived of 06Khor3    68:10 | For we are not like that people 06Khor3    68:10 | people in olden times, but our misery is greater 06Khor3    68:11 | not succeed him to lead us to the promised land 06Khor3    68:15 | Antiochus forces us to abandon our ancestral laws 06Khor3    68:15 | Antiochus forces us to abandon our ancestral laws, and Matathias does 06Khor3    68:15 | oppose him. War has surrounded us and Maccabaeus does not save 06Khor3    68:15 | and Maccabaeus does not save us 06Khor3    68:16 | there is no counselor among us to advise and prepare for 06Khor3    68:19 | And while they hoped for our return to glory in my 06Khor3    68:19 | wisdom and perfect aptitude, while we swiftly making for Byzantium hoped 06Khor3    68:20 | suffer from the loss of our father 06Khor3    68:22 | lost, the helper has abandoned us, the encouraging voice has fallen 06Khor3    68:23 | Who henceforth will respect our instruction? Who will rejoice at 06Khor3    68:24 | a bad example in mocking us and despising us as unstable 06Khor3    68:24 | in mocking us and despising us as unstable and devoid of 06Khor3    68:25 | silence and reprimand them, console us with praise, and put a 06Khor3    68:28 | Who will join us in telling of these things 06Khor3    68:28 | telling of these things, sharing our grief? Who, suffering with us 06Khor3    68:28 | our grief? Who, suffering with us, will assist our account or 06Khor3    68:28 | suffering with us, will assist our account or help us inscribe 06Khor3    68:28 | assist our account or help us inscribe it on stelae 06Khor3    68:29 | a prophet over the miseries we have suffered and the distress 06Khor3    68:29 | have suffered and the distress we shall endure. Foretell the rise 06Khor3    68:39 | save that God has abandoned us and that the elements have 06Khor3    68:44 | this may Christ God protect us and all those who worship 07Seb1    10:18 | although there is enmity between us, they said, yet they are 07Seb1    11:2 | the city of Tp’khis. Let us observe a pact of peace 07Seb1    11:2 | a pact of peace between us until the death of us 07Seb1    11:2 | us until the death of us both; and let this oath 07Seb1    11:2 | this oath be secure between us and between our sons who 07Seb1    11:2 | secure between us and between our sons who will reign after 07Seb1    11:2 | sons who will reign after us. ’ 07Seb1    11:3 | in flight and seeks from us an army in support, and 07Seb1    11:4 | Now what shall we do? Shall we agree? Is 07Seb1    11:4 | what shall we do? Shall we agree? Is it proper to 07Seb1    11:4 | into calmer (times), they renege. We have suffered many evils from 07Seb1    11:4 | them slaughter each other, and we shall have relief.’ 07Seb1    11:20 | own self, and not for us. I know you for a 07Seb1    12:3 | saying: ’O king, live forever. We do not know whether it 07Seb1    12:5 | ’They liberated that traitor, because we saw with our own eyes 07Seb1    12:5 | traitor, because we saw with our own eyes that Musheł Mamikonean 07Seb1    12:23 | reckon in your mind that we have any other intentions toward 07Seb1    15:1 | he said; they are between us and cause trouble. Now come 07Seb1    15:1 | the east. If they die, our enemies die; if they kill 07Seb1    15:1 | if they kill, they kill our enemies; but we shall live 07Seb1    15:1 | they kill our enemies; but we shall live in peace. For 07Seb1    15:1 | remain in their own land, we shall have no rest.’ 07Seb1    16:3 | reckoned that: ’With this treasure we shall make the Huns ours 07Seb1    16:3 | we shall make the Huns ours. Receiving support from them, we 07Seb1    16:3 | ours. Receiving support from them, we shall wage war against both 07Seb1    16:3 | kings, and by force restore our own land to us.’ 07Seb1    16:3 | restore our own land to us. ’ But when they reached 07Seb1    17:4 | and said to him: ’Show us the ford over the river 07Seb1    17:4 | ford over the river, otherwise we shall kill you.’ He 07Seb1    17:5 | Nersēh said to Sargis: ’Let us cast lots, whom they will 07Seb1    24:4 | had been taken captive with our own men; and furthermore not 07Seb1    28:14 | enter into battle, or that our armies be destroyed? And how 07Seb1    29:2 | done your duty loyally and we are especially grateful to you 07Seb1    29:2 | drink, and devote yourself to our happiness 07Seb1    32:13 | you delivered their army into our hands in that fashion; and 07Seb1    34:4 | one has become king without our permission and offers us our 07Seb1    34:4 | without our permission and offers us our own treasure as a 07Seb1    34:4 | our permission and offers us our own treasure as a gift 07Seb1    35:2 | God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of 07Seb1    35:2 | of all consolations, who consoled us in his great compassion for 07Seb1    35:2 | his great compassion for all our afflictions’ in the coming of 07Seb1    35:2 | For did he not console us in their arrival? First, by 07Seb1    35:2 | arrival? First, by recalling to us the previous journeys which they 07Seb1    35:2 | Jerusalem. Secondly, because he gratified our mind at their coming, and 07Seb1    35:2 | mind at their coming, and we recognized that God had not 07Seb1    35:2 | God had not completely abandoned us 07Seb1    35:3 | truly, that same God of ours is among us, showing us 07Seb1    35:3 | God of ours is among us, showing us through these things 07Seb1    35:3 | ours is among us, showing us through these things his great 07Seb1    35:3 | his power and his wonders, we shall repeat the saying of 07Seb1    35:5 | Now because he made our opponents friendly and bestowed on 07Seb1    35:5 | opponents friendly and bestowed on us pity and mercy in front 07Seb1    35:5 | mercy in front of all our captors, slayers of the Lord 07Seb1    35:5 | one who was tormented for our sake, our Lord Jesus Christ 07Seb1    35:5 | was tormented for our sake, our Lord Jesus Christ and true 07Seb1    35:7 | prevented by God who punished us, ’not in accordance with our 07Seb1    35:7 | us, ’not in accordance with our deeds’, but through his fatherly 07Seb1    35:7 | pity in order to restore us to regeneration 07Seb1    35:8 | By describing this miracle, we make you rejoice. The reconstruction 07Seb1    35:10 | ’Since he is our peace’, he who creates everything 07Seb1    35:10 | present struggle - may he make us happy through your holy prayers 07Seb1    35:10 | holy churches and by granting us pastors and prelates for his 07Seb1    35:10 | you to pray unceasingly for us, and not desist at all 07Seb1    35:10 | all in remembering and recalling us and the poor of Jerusalem 07Seb1    35:10 | life-giving Passion, so that we may attain this good end 07Seb1    36:1 | blown) by the angel summons us through this letter that has 07Seb1    36:1 | ’which announces great joy to us. ’ 07Seb1    36:2 | in their glory. So, let us all with united voice sing 07Seb1    36:4 | Jerusalem ’may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the 07Seb1    36:5 | First, we thank God for the consolations 07Seb1    36:5 | all afflictions.’’ For behold we too, through your consolation which 07Seb1    36:5 | through your consolation which reached us, were consoled from the many 07Seb1    36:5 | cruel torments which were oppressing us 07Seb1    36:6 | letter) of yours, and made us forget our sadness through the 07Seb1    36:6 | yours, and made us forget our sadness through the joy of 07Seb1    36:6 | the prophet calls out to us, saying: ’Console, console my people 07Seb1    36:7 | admonish? ’For through his wounds we were healed, and the chastisement 07Seb1    36:7 | healed, and the chastisement of our peace was in him.’ 07Seb1    36:7 | little consolation was conveyed to our people by the coming and 07Seb1    36:8 | the prophetic saying: ’Come let us go up to the mountain 07Seb1    36:9 | But even more significantly, let us repeat the apostolic saying: ’To 07Seb1    36:10 | high ’turned his face from us’, and ’the sun looked on 07Seb1    36:10 | and ’the sun looked on us askance’, our souls have indeed 07Seb1    36:10 | sun looked on us askance’, our souls have indeed been disobedient 07Seb1    36:10 | ’Justice (belongs) to the Lord our God, and to us shame 07Seb1    36:10 | Lord our God, and to us shame of face.’ But 07Seb1    36:10 | cast down by his severity, we were submerged in its great 07Seb1    36:11 | mouths and unresting tongues let us bless our Lord Jesus Christ 07Seb1    36:11 | unresting tongues let us bless our Lord Jesus Christ, the doer 07Seb1    36:12 | All this our Dear Friend previously related to 07Seb1    36:12 | Dear Friend previously related to us in his description of the 07Seb1    38:4 | your piety, but because of our impiety. Our sins have brought 07Seb1    38:4 | but because of our impiety. Our sins have brought this about 07Seb1    38:5 | install whom he wishes, and we shall accept him. But does 07Seb1    38:5 | when God gave him into our hands? But he (Maurice) had 07Seb1    38:10 | the great Aramazd, to Heraclius our senseless and insignificant servant 07Seb1    38:11 | wished to submit yourself to us, but you call yourself lord 07Seb1    38:12 | make a living.’ And we shall look upon you with 07Seb1    38:17 | note: ’Wherever you may go, we are with you to stand 07Seb1    38:17 | your feet, as the Lord our God obliterates them from the 07Seb1    38:32 | beneficent lord, have mercy on us, although we are not worthy 07Seb1    38:32 | have mercy on us, although we are not worthy of mercy’ 07Seb1    39:3 | counsel together and note: ’Although we escaped from the enemy, yet 07Seb1    39:3 | this man. But come, let us think of something.’ 07Seb1    39:7 | territory of his empire. Let us make peace over the whole 07Seb1    40:6 | as you may need. Let us make a pact between me 07Seb1    41:5 | communicate with the emperor. ’Otherwise, we shall make for ourselves another 07Seb1    42:10 | ’God gave that land to our father Abraham as a hereditary 07Seb1    42:11 | We are the sons of Abraham 07Seb1    42:11 | of Abraham. You have occupied our land long enough. Abandon it 07Seb1    42:11 | enough. Abandon it peacefully and we shall not come into your 07Seb1    42:11 | come into your territory. Otherwise, we shall demand that possession from 07Seb1    42:38 | This we heard from men who had 07Seb1    42:38 | they gave this account to us 07Seb1    45:11 | king and to the patriarch: ’We are considered as impious in 07Seb1    46:3 | We have a commandment from the 07Seb1    46:4 | and the Christ-loving army. We, glorying in the light of 07Seb1    46:5 | survivors, they attempted to convert us to their error. But they 07Seb1    46:5 | they were unable to move us; rather, ’the impious were ashamed 07Seb1    46:6 | the Armenians. They are all our subjects. Let them serve us 07Seb1    46:6 | our subjects. Let them serve us with their body; but as 07Seb1    46:17 | latter? It is clear that we must divide ourself into two 07Seb1    46:19 | oath. They responded, saying: ’If we had not turned aside from 07Seb1    46:19 | not have turned aside from us. But now in fear of 07Seb1    46:19 | now in fear of God we shall declare the truth before 07Seb1    46:23 | now, ’because God has delivered us from servitude to the empire 07Seb1    46:23 | empire of darkness’, and made us worthy of the rule of 07Seb1    46:23 | more is it right for us to enjoy that peace regarding 07Seb1    46:23 | enjoy that peace regarding which we must request from Christ God 07Seb1    46:25 | piety which you sent to us your unworthy servants, when we 07Seb1    46:25 | us your unworthy servants, when we saw it we offered obeisance 07Seb1    46:25 | servants, when we saw it we offered obeisance and with great 07Seb1    46:25 | Now in the following fashion we have learned the truth of 07Seb1    46:26 | from the beginning, of whom we have heard, to whom we 07Seb1    46:26 | we have heard, to whom we were indeed eyewitnesses, on whom 07Seb1    46:26 | were indeed eyewitnesses, on whom we looked; and our hands touched 07Seb1    46:26 | on whom we looked; and our hands touched the word of 07Seb1    46:26 | the life was revealed; and we saw and bear witness and 07Seb1    46:26 | the Father and appeared to us. ’ 07Seb1    46:27 | Why then does he say: ’We were indeed eye-witnesses’, and 07Seb1    46:27 | eye-witnesses’, and: ’On whom we looked; and our hands touched 07Seb1    46:27 | ’On whom we looked; and our hands touched the word of 07Seb1    46:27 | the Father and appeared to us’? This is very awesome, as 07Seb1    46:28 | said, as one, and not ’us’, as two. There he only 07Seb1    46:28 | appear, but in the visible we saw the invisible; since in 07Seb1    46:30 | prophetic declaration: ’By whose wounds we were all healed’. In this 07Seb1    46:31 | three are one. (Even if) we were to have any testimony 07Seb1    46:32 | of Jesus his Son purifies us from all sin.’ Behold 07Seb1    46:34 | death of the Cross’. ’While we were enemies, we were reconciled 07Seb1    46:34 | Cross’. ’While we were enemies, we were reconciled with God through 07Seb1    46:34 | but for the sake of us all handed him over’. And 07Seb1    46:36 | is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance 07Seb1    46:36 | and the inheritance will be ours.” And casting him out of 07Seb1    46:39 | and on earth; who for our sake and for our salvation 07Seb1    46:39 | for our sake and for our salvation was made man.’ 07Seb1    46:39 | his predecessors and taught to us: ’Who believed in the body 07Seb1    46:41 | So we hold our faith, not as 07Seb1    46:41 | So we hold our faith, not as being defined 07Seb1    46:41 | very recent people, but as we have received it from the 07Seb1    46:41 | from the holy apostles through our patriarch St Gregory, who instructed 07Seb1    46:43 | On this we stand firm, and we reckon 07Seb1    46:43 | this we stand firm, and we reckon the same sufficient for 07Seb1    46:45 | They confirmed once more for us the truth of the faith 07Seb1    46:45 | holy spirit had founded in us 07Seb1    46:46 | We do not recognize other councils 07Seb1    46:46 | other councils held elsewhere. And we consider as follows: that your 07Seb1    46:47 | Our holy and true Catholicos Gregory 07Seb1    46:47 | in Caesarea of Cappadocia, taught us this doctrine, in which we 07Seb1    46:47 | us this doctrine, in which we have remained immovable until now 07Seb1    46:47 | now. In addition to him we have as teachers the holy 07Seb1    46:48 | have often attacked and ruined our land, just as they destroyed 07Seb1    46:48 | they destroyed the population of our country, so too did they 07Seb1    46:48 | vardapets of the church. Now our testaments and vardapets are no 07Seb1    46:48 | and vardapets are no more. We are ignorant of books and 07Seb1    46:48 | places instructive histories, they teach us the truths of the faith 07Seb1    46:50 | ’We believe in one God, almighty 07Seb1    46:51 | Who for the sake of us men and for our salvation 07Seb1    46:51 | of us men and for our salvation, descended, was incarnate, was 07Seb1    46:52 | kingdom there is no end. We believe also in the holy 07Seb1    46:53 | We also believe in one sole 07Seb1    46:54 | mutable or changeable, such persons we anathematize, because the catholic apostolic 07Seb1    46:55 | So, let us glorify (the one) who is 07Seb1    46:57 | the giver of life and our Saviour Jesus Christ, Diocletian reigned 07Seb1    46:59 | faith, which was proclaimed to us at Nicaea 07Seb1    46:61 | But let us not boast ’save in the 07Seb1    46:61 | ’save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ’. Like-wise 07Seb1    46:63 | whereby he released captivity. Therefore, we are not ashamed to say 07Seb1    46:63 | immortal, who was crucified for us, have mercy upon us.’ 07Seb1    46:63 | for us, have mercy upon us. ’ 07Seb1    46:64 | for the Lord’s sacrament which we distribute with great discretion, it 07Seb1    46:64 | discretion, it is as follows. We do not have authority to 07Seb1    46:64 | pure to the impure. For we have universal canons for rites 07Seb1    46:67 | Now we see that among the old 07Seb1    46:69 | more is it right for us to carry out the apostle’s 07Seb1    46:71 | the impure and unclean among us earthly (creatures) to dare (to 07Seb1    46:73 | We received (this faith) from St 07Seb1    46:73 | of Nicaea was established for us through that same blessed Constantine 07Seb1    46:73 | Constantine. On that same tradition we stand firm, and we shall 07Seb1    46:73 | tradition we stand firm, and we shall not deviate from it 07Seb1    46:74 | Concerning other councils, as we said above, we do not 07Seb1    46:74 | councils, as we said above, we do not know anything for 07Seb1    46:78 | dead, and so on. But we and all who confess the 07Seb1    46:79 | by division after the union we condemn and anathematize in accordance 07Seb1    46:81 | To us the Lord’s voice proclaims; ’Let 07Seb1    46:82 | Now as we have received the commands of 07Seb1    46:82 | valiant of men, king Constans, we reckoned it best through this 07Seb1    46:82 | of the orthodox faith which our fathers received from the very 07Seb1    46:83 | May God grant our unworthiness to seek knowledge of 07Seb1    47:1 | describe the calamity which beset our time, the rupture of the 07Seb1    47:1 | south and the blowing on us of the mortal hot wind 07Seb1    47:1 | orchards. This (happened) rightly, because we sinned against the Lord and 07Seb1    47:1 | sinned against the Lord and we angered the Holy One of 07Seb1    48:8 | a subsidy as assistance; and we shall decide together what is 07Seb1    48:9 | with the Ismaelites. They reassured us, but had their troops dispersed 07Seb1    48:9 | Then they brought them upon us unexpectedly and caused them to 07Seb1    48:9 | and caused them to defeat us. Everything we had was there 07Seb1    48:9 | them to defeat us. Everything we had was there lost. But 07Seb1    48:9 | was there lost. But let us go to Armenia and investigate 07Seb1    48:9 | go to Armenia and investigate our affairs.’ 07Seb1    49:8 | nor did he communicate with us. He reckoned us and you 07Seb1    49:8 | communicate with us. He reckoned us and you unworthy, went down 07Seb1    49:10 | he is your Catholicos and our father. Yet you reckon me 07Seb1    49:12 | He note: ’Beneficent king, while we used to see you painted 07Seb1    49:12 | on the walls, trembling possessed us - let alone now that we 07Seb1    49:12 | us - let alone now that we see you face to face 07Seb1    49:12 | and speak mouth to mouth. We are ignorant and foolish men 07Seb1    49:12 | are ignorant and foolish men; we know neither language nor literature 07Seb1    49:12 | neither language nor literature unless we first study and comprehend. But 07Seb1    49:13 | own ring, and then with ours, and then with the rings 07Seb1    50:1 | I worship, the God of our father Abraham 07Seb1    50:8 | your pity, Lord, be upon us, as we hope in you 07Seb1    50:8 | Lord, be upon us, as we hope in you 08Ghev1    1:0 | First we shall discuss those called Amir 08Ghev1    1:1 | be shed in vengeance, because we had sinned before the Lord 08Ghev1    1:2 | world has been given to us for our enjoyment. Eat the 08Ghev1    1:2 | been given to us for our enjoyment. Eat the meat of 08Ghev1    1:3 | in service (to him); and we are his heirs and sons 08Ghev1    1:3 | of the patriarch. Because of our wickedness, God became disgusted with 08Ghev1    1:3 | wickedness, God became disgusted with us and lifted the scepter of 08Ghev1    1:3 | the scepter of kingship from us, subjecting us to the servitude 08Ghev1    1:3 | of kingship from us, subjecting us to the servitude of slavery 08Ghev1    1:4 | Arise with us and save us from service 08Ghev1    1:4 | Arise with us and save us from service to the emperor 08Ghev1    1:4 | of the Byzantines, and together we shall hold our realm.” The 08Ghev1    1:4 | and together we shall hold our realm.” The Arabs were encouraged 08Ghev1    1:6 | not spread their raiding over our country, bringing the sword and 08Ghev1    2:5 | arisen and are coming against us 08Ghev1    3:8 | before, were now visited upon us 08Ghev1    4:0 | four months, and then died [661-680]. ( We shall now describe) Prince Grigor 08Ghev1    4:4 | saying: “Arise and come with us to battle, bringing along the 08Ghev1    4:5 | If you do not accompany us to fight the marauder, on 08Ghev1    4:5 | to fight the marauder, on our return I shall exterminate your 08Ghev1    4:5 | from the (other) clans of our ( empire).” Frightened by these threats 08Ghev1    5:4 | sent a large force against our land of Armenia. They came 08Ghev1    6:1 | After the events which we have just narrated, the emperor 08Ghev1    7:0 | the unbelievable disasters which befell us from the Ishmaelites 08Ghev1    7:1 | his troops to come against our land. The military commander was 08Ghev1    7:1 | he had plunged it into our land 08Ghev1    7:4 | Such a crisis descended on our land that (the living) envied 08Ghev1    7:12 | and never knew righteousness, as we learn from the Lord 08Ghev1    7:20 | spoil. Meanwhile the inhabitants of our land were left like the 08Ghev1    8:9 | saying: “Why are you pursuing us? What wrong have we done 08Ghev1    8:9 | pursuing us? What wrong have we done you? Behold, our country 08Ghev1    8:9 | have we done you? Behold, our country lies before you, we 08Ghev1    8:9 | our country lies before you, we are giving you our dwelling 08Ghev1    8:9 | you, we are giving you our dwelling place, our vineyards, forests 08Ghev1    8:9 | giving you our dwelling place, our vineyards, forests, and estates. Why 08Ghev1    8:9 | Why do you also seek our lives? Let us quit our 08Ghev1    8:9 | also seek our lives? Let us quit our borders.” However, the 08Ghev1    8:9 | our lives? Let us quit our borders.” However, the Ishmaelite troops 08Ghev1    8:23 | sacrilege, saying: “God forbid that we do such a thing to 08Ghev1    8:23 | given such a victory to us 08Ghev1    8:25 | the Armenian troops and note: “ We have heard that Christian folk 08Ghev1    8:25 | show mercy. Show mercy to us and grant us our lives 08Ghev1    8:25 | mercy to us and grant us our lives as a gift 08Ghev1    8:25 | to us and grant us our lives as a gift, and 08Ghev1    8:25 | as a gift, and take our belongings as booty 08Ghev1    8:26 | General Smbat responded: “ We are taught by our Lord 08Ghev1    8:26 | responded: “We are taught by our Lord that the merciful are 08Ghev1    8:26 | unworthy of mercy, nor shall we show it to you 08Ghev1    8:27 | into the church and note: “ We have no hope staying here 08Ghev1    8:27 | since they will not show us mercy. Rather, come on and 08Ghev1    8:27 | Rather, come on and let us get out of here. Should 08Ghev1    8:27 | of here. Should they kill us we will attain the paradise 08Ghev1    8:27 | here. Should they kill us we will attain the paradise promised 08Ghev1    8:27 | attain the paradise promised to us by our law-giver, Muhammad 08Ghev1    8:27 | paradise promised to us by our law-giver, Muhammad. Should they 08Ghev1    8:27 | giver, Muhammad. Should they let us survive, we will live 08Ghev1    8:27 | Should they let us survive, we will live 08Ghev1    9:6 | As for our religion, let us have the 08Ghev1    9:6 | As for our religion, let us have the authority to hold 08Ghev1    9:6 | authority to hold to what we believe in and confess to 08Ghev1    9:6 | Let none of you torment us to turn us away from 08Ghev1    9:6 | you torment us to turn us away from our beliefs 08Ghev1    9:6 | to turn us away from our beliefs 08Ghev1    9:10 | according to their custom, something we confirmed two or three times 08Ghev1    10:10 | the weary, give aid to us who are persecuted and surrounded 08Ghev1    10:10 | and surrounded by dangers, save us from the bitter death which 08Ghev1    10:10 | the bitter death which awaits us. The heat of the flames 08Ghev1    10:10 | heat of the flames surrounding us has intensified seven times more 08Ghev1    10:11 | Your mercy do not abandon us. For we are Your servants 08Ghev1    10:11 | do not abandon us. For we are Your servants, even though 08Ghev1    10:11 | though many times, as sinners, we have displeased Your sweet love 08Ghev1    10:11 | has become a cemetary for us 08Ghev1    10:12 | Your blessed and awesome name, we place in Your hands our 08Ghev1    10:12 | we place in Your hands our souls, our breath, and our 08Ghev1    10:12 | in Your hands our souls, our breath, and our bodies.” Having 08Ghev1    10:12 | our souls, our breath, and our bodies.” Having said this, all 08Ghev1    10:13 | And they told them: “When we receive this amount of silver 08Ghev1    10:13 | receive this amount of silver, we will free you alive. As 08Ghev1    10:15 | of them the Arabs emptied our land of its lordly heirs 08Ghev1    10:16 | every sort of evil upon us as they attacked, keeping the 08Ghev1    10:25 | I loudly shouted out to our troops, which resulted in the 08Ghev1    10:25 | triumph of the Ishmaelites. And we destroyed this city.” They say 08Ghev1    11:2 | stubbornly refuse to submit to our caliph, while all the other 08Ghev1    11:2 | nations tremble with fear of us? In whom do you take 08Ghev1    11:2 | act of not submitting to us? Do you regard us as 08Ghev1    11:2 | to us? Do you regard us as your maidens amongst whom 08Ghev1    11:3 | the yoke of service to us, grasp this: I will turn 08Ghev1    11:5 | were unable to rule over our land 08Ghev1    11:7 | Now understand you, that our land has not been tributary 08Ghev1    13:1 | had immolated the lords of our land. For Muhammad had seized 08Ghev1    13:3 | Isaurian, [717-740] regarding the power of our faith, which was composed in 08Ghev1    13:3 | of various questions. Below, briefly, we shall summarize it 08Ghev1    13:10 | pointed to the mission of our Muhammad? Why have the Christian 08Ghev1    13:13 | Prophet Isaiah gives testimony to our lawgiver, as being the equal 08Ghev1    14:0 | of the Lord Jesus Christ, our true God and sovereign of 08Ghev1    14:1 | the arguments) you advance against us? It is God Himself who 08Ghev1    14:1 | is God Himself who commands us to instruct our adversaries with 08Ghev1    14:1 | who commands us to instruct our adversaries with kindliness, to see 08Ghev1    14:2 | Moreover, by no means do our imperial laws impose on us 08Ghev1    14:2 | our imperial laws impose on us the duty of smiting with 08Ghev1    14:2 | truthfulness, it is incumbent (on us) to call not just that 08Ghev1    14:3 | said in your letter that “ we have discussed with you more 08Ghev1    14:3 | once the divine mysteries of our Christian religion, but that you 08Ghev1    14:4 | accurate because nothing would induce us to discuss our doctrines with 08Ghev1    14:4 | would induce us to discuss our doctrines with you, since our 08Ghev1    14:4 | our doctrines with you, since our Lord and Master Himself has 08Ghev1    14:4 | and Master Himself has bidden us to refrain from exposing our 08Ghev1    14:4 | us to refrain from exposing our unique and divine doctrine to 08Ghev1    14:4 | strange. This is the rule we observe towards others 08Ghev1    14:5 | It is true that we have written to you several 08Ghev1    14:5 | affairs, never about divine ones. We are, moreover, instructed by the 08Ghev1    14:5 | reply to those who question us [cf. I Peter 3:15], and maintain silence before those 08Ghev1    14:6 | With regard to you, however, we are not learning now for 08Ghev1    14:6 | substance of your beliefs, for we have been commanded by God 08Ghev1    14:6 | to that which is good [cf. I Thess. 5:21]. We possess historical documents composed by 08Ghev1    14:6 | possess historical documents composed by our blessed prelates who were living 08Ghev1    14:6 | writings make it unnecessary for us to involve you (in the 08Ghev1    14:7 | that you may not think we are ashamed to profess a 08Ghev1    14:7 | a religion so marvelous as ours, hearken, if it please you 08Ghev1    14:9 | have, for example, said that our Lord has said in the 08Ghev1    14:9 | shall quit it naked”, whereas we do not find in the 08Ghev1    14:9 | any such statement coming from our Lord, though He does counsel 08Ghev1    14:9 | Lord, though He does counsel us often to meditate upon death 08Ghev1    14:11 | my replies. You say that we have found in the Psalms 08Ghev1    14:11 | of the Prophets testimonies regarding our Lord, but today is not 08Ghev1    14:11 | is not the first time we have searched for and found 08Ghev1    14:12 | of all you write that we have contended ourselves with these 08Ghev1    14:17 | written that “Jesus indeed merits our confidence because, being near to 08Ghev1    14:17 | been falsified by people whom we do not know 08Ghev1    14:20 | forth by the Prophets, merit our entire confidence not because they 08Ghev1    14:23 | We know that it was Abraham 08Ghev1    14:25 | We know too, that Moses, to 08Ghev1    14:26 | and the seventy disciples of our Lord, one hundred and eleven 08Ghev1    14:29 | while you pretend to seduce us by our own words. Thus 08Ghev1    14:29 | pretend to seduce us by our own words. Thus you start 08Ghev1    14:29 | letter by citing one of our opinions, pretending to draw from 08Ghev1    14:30 | But if you believe in our opinions you must believe in 08Ghev1    14:31 | When we say that it was the 08Ghev1    14:31 | the Scripts in the sanctuary, we do not mean to say 08Ghev1    14:31 | Hebrews as well as by us 08Ghev1    14:34 | the Syrians Oratha, and by us Nomos. They contain teachings about 08Ghev1    14:36 | Koheleth and Shirat’shirim, but by us Parimon and Samatan. The books 08Ghev1    14:38 | the enmity which exists between us Christians and the Jews, the 08Ghev1    14:38 | sole cause of which being our belief in Jesus as the 08Ghev1    14:42 | up to the time of our Savior, and from which, the 08Ghev1    14:42 | them to be dispersed as we see in our own days 08Ghev1    14:42 | dispersed as we see in our own days; God established the 08Ghev1    14:44 | the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when 08Ghev1    14:44 | sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows 08Ghev1    14:44 | Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For 08Ghev1    14:44 | willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors 08Ghev1    14:44 | up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs 08Ghev1    14:44 | there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors words 08Ghev1    14:44 | required of us songs, and our tormentors words of praise.’’ 08Ghev1    14:51 | Thus, as we have already said, God wished 08Ghev1    14:56 | that this truth, recognized by us Christians, disturbs you, such that 08Ghev1    14:56 | lie. You would rather have us declare that it was written 08Ghev1    14:56 | do for your Furqan, although we know that it was ’Umar 08Ghev1    14:57 | the truth that abides with us Christians. If this was so 08Ghev1    14:57 | so, how dare you accuse us of pretending that, since that 08Ghev1    14:57 | into the Gospel, whether by us or by others? What could 08Ghev1    14:57 | others? What could have hindered us from removing from it the 08Ghev1    14:59 | to give thanks”, or in our own tongue, “to render grace 08Ghev1    14:61 | come in the name of our Lord, but in his own 08Ghev1    14:62 | I have already said earlier, our Creator spread the teaching of 08Ghev1    14:63 | Daniel, God has revealed to us the three periods through which 08Ghev1    14:64 | the promises. On the contrary, we are warned constantly by the 08Ghev1    14:65 | the disciples of the Lord, we became divided into seventy-two 08Ghev1    14:65 | you pretend is based on our error. In fact, the blame 08Ghev1    14:67 | of which have come to our attention as follows: The Kouzi 08Ghev1    14:71 | been that bitter hostility among us such as one sees among 08Ghev1    14:71 | among whose number you count us. But these are people who 08Ghev1    14:72 | As for us, we are accustomed to designate 08Ghev1    14:72 | As for us, we are accustomed to designate the 08Ghev1    14:72 | them who live far from us and speak a tongue other 08Ghev1    14:72 | speak a tongue other than ours; above all those who have 08Ghev1    14:74 | a few of them: First our Greek language, second the Latin 08Ghev1    14:75 | you well know, far from us, and differing from us both 08Ghev1    14:75 | from us, and differing from us both in their language and 08Ghev1    14:76 | would have been impossible among us. First of all, because God 08Ghev1    14:76 | all, because God has given us the strictest order not to 08Ghev1    14:77 | who find themselves far from us, nor among those who live 08Ghev1    14:77 | among those who live near us. Refrain then from making things 08Ghev1    14:78 | regard to the Gospels of our Lord and the books of 08Ghev1    14:81 | the God of Jacob” [Exodus 3:15]; “Let us make man in our own 08Ghev1    14:81 | Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness 08Ghev1    14:81 | in our own image, after our likeness”, [Genesis 1:26]; “Come, let us go 08Ghev1    14:81 | after our likeness”, [Genesis 1:26]; “Come, let us go down, and there confuse 08Ghev1    14:82 | God is addressing these words? We do not permit ourselves to 08Ghev1    14:82 | and enlightens all? And yet we are accused by you of 08Ghev1    14:84 | the buildings intercepts, seems to us to proceed from a birth 08Ghev1    14:85 | attention to what God orders us in the Holy Scriptures; as 08Ghev1    14:86 | emanating from different origins. For our part, we know only one 08Ghev1    14:86 | different origins. For our part, we know only one God, the 08Ghev1    14:87 | this Word is not like ours, which, as long as it 08Ghev1    14:87 | it has not proceeded from our mouths, remains incomprehensible (to others 08Ghev1    14:87 | dissipates. This Word is what we recognize as the Word of 08Ghev1    14:95 | Word of God should assume our flesh, our soul and all 08Ghev1    14:95 | God should assume our flesh, our soul and all that is 08Ghev1    14:95 | lower than He in humiliation, we attribute to Him all that 08Ghev1    14:95 | said as to His supremacy, we attribute to Him as to 08Ghev1    14:96 | Do you recall what we mentioned above from the books 08Ghev1    14:103 | of the Word: “This is our God, no other can be 08Ghev1    14:107 | This prophecy does not prevents us from receiving yet another, by 08Ghev1    14:111 | of David, terrestrial king, as we have often told you 08Ghev1    14:118 | had to say: “For to us a child is born. . . and 08Ghev1    14:122 | which means, God is with us 08Ghev1    14:125 | the holy Gospels have told us, which you may read as 08Ghev1    14:125 | will find it such as we have presented it to you 08Ghev1    14:127 | Lord, who has believed what we have heard? And to whom 08Ghev1    14:127 | no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and 08Ghev1    14:127 | him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was 08Ghev1    14:127 | faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not 08Ghev1    14:128 | Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows 08Ghev1    14:128 | borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him 08Ghev1    14:128 | and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by 08Ghev1    14:128 | But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for 08Ghev1    14:128 | transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the 08Ghev1    14:128 | was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes 08Ghev1    14:128 | whole, and with his stripes we are healed 08Ghev1    14:129 | All we like sheep have gone astray 08Ghev1    14:129 | like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his 08Ghev1    14:129 | on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and 08Ghev1    14:132 | Aaron, was the mother of our Lord, whereas between the first 08Ghev1    14:134 | pretend that the Hebrews and we have altered them, though you 08Ghev1    14:134 | are of divine origin. Suppose we admit for a moment that 08Ghev1    14:134 | admit for a moment that ours have been falsified and corrupted 08Ghev1    14:134 | which you place credence? Show us other books of Moses or 08Ghev1    14:134 | David, or the Gospels, that we may see them. This deception 08Ghev1    14:135 | have never seen them, and we are bound not to believe 08Ghev1    14:135 | in looking into the Gospel we possess, in an attempt to 08Ghev1    14:135 | do you still pretend that we have falsified them? At least 08Ghev1    14:136 | by God. Then you reproach us for not turning, when we 08Ghev1    14:136 | us for not turning, when we pray, to the region indicated 08Ghev1    14:137 | of Abraham. Holy Scriptures tell us nothing about Abraham having gone 08Ghev1    14:138 | Let us first examine the different passages 08Ghev1    14:138 | prayed in order to teach us how to pray, even us 08Ghev1    14:138 | us how to pray, even us whose nature He partook 08Ghev1    14:140 | humiliating. Had those who preceded us been able, or if we 08Ghev1    14:140 | us been able, or if we ourselves had thought of introducing 08Ghev1    14:146 | To the perfect man we attribute the humiliating expressions (of 08Ghev1    14:147 | him as the enemy of our ( humanity), and refusing to reveal 08Ghev1    14:148 | so as not to recognize our Lord as God, confessing Him 08Ghev1    14:149 | traits (in the life) of our Lord, but you despise and 08Ghev1    14:153 | by His divine nature, and our Father by grace, because “to 08Ghev1    14:153 | He has in common with us. ( Jesus) was sent in His 08Ghev1    14:154 | the sacrifice, you pretend that we have changed them at will 08Ghev1    14:154 | communion of bread and cup. We have not modified anything; it 08Ghev1    14:156 | an unreasonable lamb, could not we be saved from eternal death 08Ghev1    14:156 | His blood, and commanded that we take and drink in remembrance 08Ghev1    14:158 | Regarding circumcision, you pretend that we have replaced it by baptism 08Ghev1    14:160 | As for us, we have not received any 08Ghev1    14:160 | As for us, we have not received any command 08Ghev1    14:160 | received any command to circumcise our exterior members, but our heart 08Ghev1    14:160 | circumcise our exterior members, but our heart, through the Spirit, as 08Ghev1    14:161 | so modern a time as ours, when God has delivered the 08Ghev1    14:162 | Baptism, it was announced to us by God long beforehand, through 08Ghev1    14:164 | Nor have we substituted Sunday for the Sabbath 08Ghev1    14:165 | As for us, we assemble on the day 08Ghev1    14:165 | As for us, we assemble on the day of 08Ghev1    14:165 | Lord, who thereby has promised us resurrection, to say our prayers 08Ghev1    14:165 | promised us resurrection, to say our prayers, and render thanks to 08Ghev1    14:166 | We have neither received command to 08Ghev1    14:166 | following the Jews, nor have we stayed away from preparing our 08Ghev1    14:166 | we stayed away from preparing our food 08Ghev1    14:169 | command of word, as [Psalm 148] assures us, saying: “He commanded and they 08Ghev1    14:173 | which you consider unclean in our human nature have been organized 08Ghev1    14:173 | serve for the conservation of our life 08Ghev1    14:178 | will not be broken, yet we know that a great number 08Ghev1    14:181 | Thus we see that the living God 08Ghev1    14:182 | it has been predicted by our Lord that, “The hour is 08Ghev1    14:183 | Yet you are annoyed when we gather together the remains of 08Ghev1    14:183 | their own death, so that we may bury them in places 08Ghev1    14:184 | to the cross and pictures. We honor the cross because of 08Ghev1    14:184 | of God borne thereon, as we learned from a commandment given 08Ghev1    14:185 | imitation of this sign) that we Christians sign our foreheads with 08Ghev1    14:185 | sign) that we Christians sign our foreheads with the cross, as 08Ghev1    14:185 | of God who suffered for us in His human nature 08Ghev1    14:187 | As for pictures, we do not pay them like 08Ghev1    14:187 | effect in the Holy Scriptures. We have, however, in the Old 08Ghev1    14:188 | Likewise we, animated by a sincere love 08Ghev1    14:188 | which have come down to us from their times as their 08Ghev1    14:188 | their images) in front of us, we joyfully glorify God who 08Ghev1    14:188 | images) in front of us, we joyfully glorify God who has 08Ghev1    14:188 | glorify God who has saved us by the intercession of His 08Ghev1    14:188 | and the colors on it, we do not give them any 08Ghev1    14:200 | the just, you pretend that we have represented the former as 08Ghev1    14:200 | is an erroneous diversion from our prudence 08Ghev1    14:201 | We say, on the contrary, that 08Ghev1    14:213 | As for us, instructed in and convinced of 08Ghev1    14:213 | of the marvelous mystery of our redemption, we hope after our 08Ghev1    14:213 | marvelous mystery of our redemption, we hope after our resurrection, to 08Ghev1    14:213 | our redemption, we hope after our resurrection, to enjoy the celestial 08Ghev1    14:213 | enjoy the celestial kingdom, since we have obeyed the doctrines of 08Ghev1    14:213 | for those who love him.” [1 Cor. 2:9]. We do not hope to find 08Ghev1    14:213 | wine, honey or milk. There we do not expect to enjoy 08Ghev1    14:213 | have children by them, for we put no faith in such 08Ghev1    14:214 | Far from us such idle stories and fabulous 08Ghev1    14:216 | you. For the sake of our unshakable and imperishable faith, we 08Ghev1    14:216 | our unshakable and imperishable faith, we have endured at your hands 08Ghev1    14:216 | will still endure much suffering. We are even prepared to die 08Ghev1    14:216 | He was upon earth, told us beforehand (of these sufferings), saying 08Ghev1    14:216 | of these sufferings), saying to us: “ If they persecuted me, they 08Ghev1    14:218 | Because such is our hope, we are tormented by 08Ghev1    14:218 | Because such is our hope, we are tormented by you, under 08Ghev1    14:218 | the threat of death; but we can only respond with patience 08Ghev1    14:218 | only respond with patience, for we count on neither our bow 08Ghev1    14:218 | for we count on neither our bow nor our sword to 08Ghev1    14:218 | on neither our bow nor our sword to save us, but 08Ghev1    14:218 | nor our sword to save us, but on the right arm 08Ghev1    14:218 | countenance. Should He will it, ( we are prepared to suffer still 08Ghev1    14:220 | As for us, we accept with eagerness all 08Ghev1    14:220 | As for us, we accept with eagerness all the 08Ghev1    14:220 | all the tortures which befall us for the sake of the 08Ghev1    14:220 | glorious name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, so that 08Ghev1    14:220 | Lord and Savior, so that we may arrive at the happiness 08Ghev1    14:220 | loved His name, with whom we may be worthy to glorify 08Ghev1    15:1 | demonstrated his benevolence. Indeed, as we narrated earlier, he was the 08Ghev1    16:0 | acts of fanatical cruelty toward our Christians. Motivated by an impure 08Ghev1    16:0 | of the true incarnation of our Lord and Savior and his 08Ghev1    17:2 | calamities upon this land of ours, to the point that everyone 08Ghev1    20:3 | you not come forth to us as a tax payer? For 08Ghev1    20:3 | nations quake in fear of us 08Ghev1    20:4 | help you that you reject us? Could it be that you 08Ghev1    20:4 | not heard about the evils we visited upon all those kingdoms 08Ghev1    20:4 | those kingdoms which turned against our sovereignty, kingdoms which we have 08Ghev1    20:4 | against our sovereignty, kingdoms which we have smashed and pulverized like 08Ghev1    20:4 | the world’s wealth has become ours because the Lord’s command and 08Ghev1    20:4 | and the promise (made) to our father Ishmael has been fulfilled 08Ghev1    20:4 | has been fulfilled. And indeed, we have conquered every kingdom 08Ghev1    20:6 | head, for the glory of our faith is great before the 08Ghev1    20:6 | Lord and He will aid us 08Ghev1    20:8 | invoking the indulgent forgiveness of our Savior who from the start 08Ghev1    20:12 | the Almighty? You insolently envision our Savior and His throne 08Ghev1    20:13 | For these reasons we hope that His mercy which 08Ghev1    20:14 | As for us, we do not boast of 08Ghev1    20:14 | As for us, we do not boast of our 08Ghev1    20:14 | we do not boast of our bows nor do we live 08Ghev1    20:14 | of our bows nor do we live by our swords. Rather 08Ghev1    20:14 | nor do we live by our swords. Rather, it is the 08Ghev1    20:15 | your deeds but because of our own impiety that (God) permitted 08Ghev1    20:15 | upon the righteous, so that we take measure of our weakness 08Ghev1    20:15 | that we take measure of our weakness and be counseled to 08Ghev1    20:16 | You are testing the Lord our God. But He can sink 08Ghev1    20:18 | save His people and deliver us those who have troubled us 08Ghev1    20:18 | us those who have troubled us, with their heads bowed down 08Ghev1    20:24 | waters and crying out: “Help us, Christ, son of God, saviour 08Ghev1    20:28 | did you want to attack our country, mercilessly put my troops 08Ghev1    20:29 | Our Lord (represents) life, while you 08Ghev1    21:5 | regarding the tyranny (imposed upon) our land. This was due to 08Ghev1    22:5 | maids. (Marwan) himself ruled over our land, ending all violent attacks 08Ghev1    23:3 | has insulted the honor of our caliphate and deviated from the 08Ghev1    23:3 | deviated from the precepts of our law-giver (Muhammad) and deports 08Ghev1    24:3 | them to the cemetary, saying: “ We are one people (speaking) one 08Ghev1    24:3 | one language, (having) one principality. We are brothers, so why are 08Ghev1    24:3 | are brothers, so why are we plunging swords into each other 08Ghev1    26:2 | and a disastrous proposition. Clearly our forces are few when compared 08Ghev1    26:2 | the brutality of the Ishmaelites, we cannot withstand their troops, and 08Ghev1    26:2 | cannot withstand their troops, and we will be unable to dislodge 08Ghev1    26:2 | will be unable to dislodge our country from the mouth of 08Ghev1    26:3 | only trouble and danger to our aim. If you prefer, accept 08Ghev1    26:3 | accept my counsel and let us not do it. Instead let 08Ghev1    26:3 | not do it. Instead let us pay taxes to them as 08Ghev1    26:3 | pay taxes to them as we are currently doing and let 08Ghev1    26:3 | are currently doing and let us keep our property, our vineyards 08Ghev1    26:3 | doing and let us keep our property, our vineyards, forests, and 08Ghev1    26:3 | let us keep our property, our vineyards, forests, and farms 08Ghev1    26:4 | If you do not join our alliance, none of your troops 08Ghev1    26:4 | troops will stay with you. We cannot tolerate the crisis that 08Ghev1    26:4 | tolerate the crisis that the our country of Armenia is experiencing 08Ghev1    26:6 | withdrew from the commander of our land and went and took 08Ghev1    26:11 | he reduced the glory of our entire land, consigning it to 08Ghev1    27:0 | Let us return to the previous strand 08Ghev1    27:0 | to the previous strand of our historical narration 08Ghev1    28:3 | viciously tormented the inhabitants of our land with bitter tax demands 08Ghev1    28:7 | When he was leaving our land he placed Yazid (Ezit 08Ghev1    30:0 | impious nation continued unabated in our land 08Ghev1    31:2 | He sent (this army) to our land, which was under Yazid’s 08Ghev1    33:2 | everything they possessed. They tied our country of Armenia with the 08Ghev1    33:3 | charge of tax collection in our land, did not heed their 08Ghev1    33:6 | of (divine) wrath visited upon us 08Ghev1    33:7 | and worsening the plight of our land. For as we noted 08Ghev1    33:7 | of our land. For as we noted earlier, it was the 08Ghev1    33:7 | their hearts to vengeance for our sins. Indeed famine, the sword 08Ghev1    33:8 | lords. The military commanders of our land were unable to endure 08Ghev1    33:9 | die cruel and painful deaths. We are unable to narrate more 08Ghev1    34:8 | additional grief from taxes in our land, since the discovery of 08Ghev1    34:34 | wild beast which now pollutes our country. On whom will you 08Ghev1    34:35 | the needs and peace of our land. The matter will resolve 08Ghev1    34:55 | this defeat), despair increased in our land of Armenia, while the 08Ghev1    34:58 | to witness the destruction of our land and the desecration of 08Ghev1    34:63 | with each other, saying: “Let us bravely die for our land 08Ghev1    34:63 | Let us bravely die for our land and our people. Let 08Ghev1    34:63 | die for our land and our people. Let our eyes not 08Ghev1    34:63 | land and our people. Let our eyes not witness our sanctuaries 08Ghev1    34:63 | Let our eyes not witness our sanctuaries and the sites of 08Ghev1    34:63 | sites of the glorification of our God trampled by these loathsome 08Ghev1    34:64 | Before that happens, let our enemy’s sword confront us and 08Ghev1    34:64 | let our enemy’s sword confront us and have their way with 08Ghev1    34:64 | and have their way with us. Let us trade our persons 08Ghev1    34:64 | their way with us. Let us trade our persons for the 08Ghev1    34:64 | with us. Let us trade our persons for the truth of 08Ghev1    34:64 | persons for the truth of our faith and not for earthly 08Ghev1    34:65 | saying: “God, help and accompany us quickly. Pity the great shame 08Ghev1    34:65 | quickly. Pity the great shame we are found in. In our 08Ghev1    34:65 | we are found in. In our peril we call upon Your 08Ghev1    34:65 | found in. In our peril we call upon Your name, Oh 08Ghev1    34:65 | You in the dangers surrounding us. For countless evils surround us 08Ghev1    34:65 | us. For countless evils surround us and hold us and the 08Ghev1    34:65 | evils surround us and hold us and the hour of our 08Ghev1    34:65 | us and the hour of our death has arrived 08Ghev1    34:67 | As we learned directly from the enemy 08Ghev1    34:71 | and wailing greatly increased in our land of Armenia. For great 08Ghev1    38:0 | thereby to terrify (the Byzantines). We learned that along with his 08Ghev1    38:3 | to the same general whom we mentioned earlier, and sent them 08Ghev1    39:0 | It remains for us to describe the events which 08Ghev1    39:3 | from the Andzewats’ik’ House, whom we mentioned earlier, had previously come 08Ghev1    39:10 | people who had submitted to our rule, for he might be 08Ghev1    39:10 | might be a traitor in our forces 08Ghev1    39:12 | upon ’Uthman, the governor of our country. Unwillingly, at the caliph’s 08Ghev1    40:7 | to agree to convert to our faith and to accept the 08Ghev1    40:7 | to accept the word of our Prophet. That is your only 08Ghev1    40:10 | to K’ubeida): “God forbid that we should exchange the truth of 08Ghev1    40:10 | the hope of all, for our insignificant blood 08Ghev1    40:11 | in prison, saying: “Oh brothers, we have enjoyed enough this fleeting 08Ghev1    40:11 | this fleeting glory. Hereafter let us not live for greatness, transitory 08Ghev1    40:11 | of kinfolk, the tenderness of ( our) children, or any of the 08Ghev1    41:2 | he designated for governors over our country godless men of unrestrained 08Ghev1    41:5 | taxes on the residents of our land 09Draskh1    1:1 | times and seasons, thus depriving us humans of the knowledge of 09Draskh1    1:1 | wonderfully moderate enthusiasm bequeathed to us with reasonable excellence the sequence 09Draskh1    1:1 | epics, but making known (to us) the sound state of their 09Draskh1    1:2 | Then they guided us in various matters of past 09Draskh1    1:2 | past bygone times so that we, who are removed (by time 09Draskh1    1:2 | question the fathers who teach us and the elderly who narrate 09Draskh1    1:2 | the elderly who narrate to us 09Draskh1    1:5 | amazing men who lived before our time, recorded from the beginning 09Draskh1    1:6 | that came upon and overwhelmed us 09Draskh1    1:8 | separate from the other two our own Japheth and single him 09Draskh1    1:9 | shall show that not only our nation is descended from him 09Draskh1    1:10 | genealogy of the Japhethids to our own Togarmah, and leaving the 09Draskh1    1:10 | the first to rule over us as kings; or else (how 09Draskh1    1:10 | and subsequently his descendants governed us 09Draskh1    1:11 | were both assigned by Christ our Saviour to our land as 09Draskh1    1:11 | by Christ our Saviour to our land as preachers and doctors 09Draskh1    1:12 | I shall briefly speak about our holy enlightener Gregory who completed 09Draskh1    1:13 | the great prince Ashot as our king, we witnessed the renewal 09Draskh1    1:13 | prince Ashot as our king, we witnessed the renewal of the 09Draskh1    1:14 | Although before us Shapuh Bagratuni, a historian of 09Draskh1    1:14 | Shapuh Bagratuni, a historian of our times, has written an account 09Draskh1    1:15 | he regulated the prosperity of our country. Besides him, we shall 09Draskh1    1:15 | of our country. Besides him, we shall also tell you about 09Draskh1    1:22 | historians, and compare them with our genealogical list 09Draskh1    1:24 | in a different form from ours— for example, they call Noah 09Draskh1    1:25 | Thus both traditions transmit to us the (following) sequence of events 09Draskh1    1:27 | briefly (about the descendants) of our own Japheth, following the sequence 09Draskh1    2:2 | To our own Japheth (Yabet’) at first 09Draskh1    2:6 | Tiras from whom were born our very own Ashkenaz (Ask’anaz) and 09Draskh1    2:7 | at first Ashkenaz had named our people after himself in accord 09Draskh1    2:7 | the law of seniority, as we shall explain in its proper 09Draskh1    2:9 | you with the affinities of our race, where so many patriarchates 09Draskh1    2:11 | flow of my narrative to our own Togarmah, in agreement with 09Draskh1    2:13 | To Ashkenaz, who first named our people Ashkenazian after himself, he 09Draskh1    2:13 | the Sauromatians, whereas Togarmah inherited our own people, over whom he 09Draskh1    2:14 | You now know why we are called Ashkenazian as well 09Draskh1    2:14 | narration concerning the patriarchy of our people, although there are some 09Draskh1    2:15 | not give the timespans of our patriarchs one by one as 09Draskh1    2:15 | yet, comparing the genealogies of our own Japheth with those of 09Draskh1    2:15 | Japheth with those of Sem, we derive a period of four 09Draskh1    2:16 | the Divine Scriptures transmitted to us the history (of the period 09Draskh1    2:16 | period) until the time of our own Togarmah, as was said 09Draskh1    2:17 | sent at the order of our ( king) Vagharshak to the archives 09Draskh1    2:17 | the parts that dealt with our people, he presented them to 09Draskh1    2:18 | that source the testimony of our authentic stories became known to 09Draskh1    2:18 | authentic stories became known to us and we learned that the 09Draskh1    2:18 | became known to us and we learned that the handsome Hayk 09Draskh1    2:18 | first patriarch and progenitor of our nation 09Draskh1    3:2 | But our Hayk most vehemently resisted and 09Draskh1    3:2 | Bel, he immediately came to our land with his son Aramaneak 09Draskh1    3:4 | Soon our Hayk shot from his well 09Draskh1    3:5 | life he died, having entrusted our land to his son Aramaneak 09Draskh1    3:6 | While Aramaneak ruled over our people, he went and lived 09Draskh1    3:17 | the nations who live around us consequently call us Armaneakk’ in 09Draskh1    3:17 | live around us consequently call us Armaneakk’ in his name 09Draskh1    3:25 | ruled over a part of our land, and subsequently conquered all 09Draskh1    4:3 | himself along with the others our own valiant victorious Paroyr, granted 09Draskh1    4:4 | composition of an encomium praising our people, for henceforth I shall 09Draskh1    4:4 | pride give the succession of ( our) kings and not patriarchs 09Draskh1    4:8 | captives, whom he settled in our land with great honor and 09Draskh1    4:9 | succeeded to the leadership of our people 09Draskh1    4:12 | and Edessa, were delivered to our hands 09Draskh1    4:13 | more soberminded than any of our kings, surpassed them all 09Draskh1    4:17 | to the ancient limits of our abode. More and more he 09Draskh1    4:17 | More and more he exalted our people and endowed her with 09Draskh1    4:20 | other matters that lie before us 09Draskh1    4:27 | of Vagharshak the Parthian, since ( our princes) rose against one another 09Draskh1    4:29 | it may, the timespan from our own Hayk to the coronation 09Draskh1    5:1 | narrate about Vagharshak ruling over us as king and about his 09Draskh1    6:17 | and ferociously attacked not only our Artawazd, but also other nations 09Draskh1    6:17 | with them he also seized our Artawazd in Mesopotamia, and totally 09Draskh1    7:2 | not pronounce it properly in our tongue, they called him Abgar 09Draskh1    7:3 | days of the census when our Lord Jesus Christ was born 09Draskh1    7:11 | witnessed the wonderful healing of our God Christ, and upon their 09Draskh1    7:12 | Having received the letter, our Savior considered it worth answering 09Draskh1    7:14 | Then, after the ascension of our Savior, in the thirtieth year 09Draskh1    7:14 | accordance with the promise of our Lord Jesus Christ he might 09Draskh1    8:7 | to become the cause of our enlightenment 09Draskh1    8:9 | reptiles), and became resplendant in our salvation. With the joyful procession 09Draskh1    8:10 | thus became (for those of us) here a minister of holiness 09Draskh1    8:10 | a minister of holiness and our ( spiritual) parent in accordance with 09Draskh1    9:2 | who were summoned was also our own Aristakes 09Draskh1    9:4 | Then our Aristakes returned from there bringing 09Draskh1    9:6 | blessed Grigor, the author of our enlightenment and the precursor of 09Draskh1    10:6 | But our spiritual radiance Saint Grigor, having 09Draskh1    10:8 | becoming the second author of our enlightenment 09Draskh1    11:1 | established by Christ prevail over us, and let not the godless 09Draskh1    11:1 | the godless Persians rule over us 09Draskh1    11:9 | Thereupon, having taken hostages from our own Tiran, he made him 09Draskh1    12:5 | dead. Thereafter the people of our land appeared (to the onlooker 09Draskh1    12:10 | Subsequently, in like manner our king Arshak, and the naxarars 09Draskh1    12:10 | are to be found among us, and the living martyr Grigorios 09Draskh1    12:12 | Church was entirely completed in our country as well, since it 09Draskh1    13:14 | of those who narrated before us 09Draskh1    14:0 | the Spread of Literacy among Our People; the Downfall of Our 09Draskh1    14:0 | Our People; the Downfall of Our Kingdom 09Draskh1    14:5 | the blessed Sahak instituted through our Vramshapuh the concessions made by 09Draskh1    14:6 | with him the characters of our language, which were presumably given 09Draskh1    15:1 | from the house of Grigor, our thrice-blessed Enlightener. As each 09Draskh1    15:1 | order deteriorated. Then some of our naxarars, beguiled by the demon 09Draskh1    16:3 | and collecting the taxes from our land rebuilt the churches that 09Draskh1    16:5 | with good advice, he entrusted our land to Vahan 09Draskh1    16:28 | those regions had learned from our orthodox fathers and, allured by 09Draskh1    16:40 | nomenclature of those provinces which our own Aram had sucessively demarcated 09Draskh1    16:50 | former names were given by our own valiant Aram, whereas the 09Draskh1    17:5 | Then Smbat ordered our great patriarch Movses to set 09Draskh1    17:14 | They also threatened our orthodox believers (living) in that 09Draskh1    17:14 | flawless and orthodox profession of our doctrine might be contaminated and 09Draskh1    18:5 | agree to go and unite, we would set up another katholikos 09Draskh1    18:12 | But the philosopher Yovhan, whom we mentioned earlier, did not go 09Draskh1    18:14 | canonical articles of faith of our orthodox fathers and has thought 09Draskh1    18:14 | and has thought of making us conform to the wicked Chalcedonian 09Draskh1    18:16 | come to greet and visit us 09Draskh1    18:18 | the articles of faith of our orthodox fathers and by tearing 09Draskh1    19:12 | And because the naxarars of our land were disunited and there 09Draskh1    19:29 | be reinstated as strategos. Thus our land was given a ruler 09Draskh1    19:30 | bearing xorshak (simoon), blew on us, and having burned the seedlings 09Draskh1    19:30 | having burned the seedlings of our spiritual orchards, severely wounded us 09Draskh1    19:30 | our spiritual orchards, severely wounded us with her sting 09Draskh1    19:36 | Council of Chalcedon. The Emperor, our patriarch Nerses and the other 09Draskh1    19:39 | which are imprinted on boards, we tremble, much less beholding your 09Draskh1    20:14 | Those who have written before us will give you sufficient information 09Draskh1    20:16 | the Armenian era. He compared ours with certain more suitable systems 09Draskh1    20:16 | more suitable systems so that we would not be required to 09Draskh1    20:16 | not be required to have ours run parallel with (the calendar 09Draskh1    20:30 | seized the neophyte Dawit’ whom we mentioned above; he tormented him 09Draskh1    21:2 | in their barbarous language: “Let us not be reminded of Vardanadert 09Draskh1    21:14 | death than he would make us in life. With the help 09Draskh1    21:14 | a great salvation came to our land 09Draskh1    21:17 | Armenia burned a fire in our midst, since the satan had 09Draskh1    21:21 | Thus, our land became a sea of 09Draskh1    22:4 | is a bishop here in our country, and also a princess 09Draskh1    22:4 | majesty, and do not join us, who always remember and proclaim 09Draskh1    22:4 | and proclaim your name in our prayers 09Draskh1    22:5 | and are contriving to return our land to him. Should you 09Draskh1    22:5 | hasten to remove them from our midst, they will very soon 09Draskh1    22:7 | Eghia removed this wickedness from ( our) midst by wisely routing their 09Draskh1    22:24 | Yovhannes answered: “Although Our God Christ’s divine glory was 09Draskh1    22:24 | flesh, which he took from us, as if by a curtain 09Draskh1    22:25 | Today, however, since we are deprived of the grace 09Draskh1    22:25 | grace of their numerous powers, we try to impress the simple 09Draskh1    23:5 | his days the attacks of our wicked enemies from all quarters 09Draskh1    24:17 | result of this, accounts concerning our princes of this period are 09Draskh1    24:18 | find it adequately treated by our predecessor the historian Shapuh 09Draskh1    25:2 | dominated the greater part of our land through his wife’s prerogatives 09Draskh1    25:50 | demonstrated clearly, that “the sufferings we now endure bear no comparison 09Draskh1    25:50 | which is in store for us 09Draskh1    25:64 | temporary death; for even though we are suffering for Christ, we 09Draskh1    25:64 | we are suffering for Christ, we are in communion with the 09Draskh1    27:2 | Shapuh Bagratuni, a historian of our own times, who has given 09Draskh1    29:13 | trivial, harmony and friendship to our king Ashot, whom he addressed 09Draskh1    30:34 | should the particular characteristic of our angelic order, relieving us of 09Draskh1    30:34 | of our angelic order, relieving us of the burden of responsibilities 09Draskh1    30:34 | burden of responsibilities because of our incompetence, lead us into a 09Draskh1    30:34 | because of our incompetence, lead us into a divergent path, let 09Draskh1    30:34 | into a divergent path, let us not seem to be rebellious 09Draskh1    30:34 | rebellious; for God’s command bids us submit to God rather than 09Draskh1    30:37 | of the Holy Scriptures, that we hold him as an exemplar 09Draskh1    30:38 | by the holy fathers between us and the Chalcedonians. Therefore, with 09Draskh1    30:39 | strife. You have also urged us “ Not to remain silent 09Draskh1    30:50 | things belong unto the Lord our God. For this reason He 09Draskh1    30:51 | that they stole it from us, and having changed the words 09Draskh1    30:55 | reason, was not blessed, and we are all aware of the 09Draskh1    30:60 | that should God not visit us for some reason, I should 09Draskh1    31:6 | Why are you coming upon us in anger for no reason 09Draskh1    32:8 | immense force in anger for our multiplying sins. I was also 09Draskh1    32:12 | them vanish like smoke, covering us all with blinding darkness 09Draskh1    32:13 | and unheard of condemnation which we received in retribution. For there 09Draskh1    32:14 | straight and redeeming mankind. Because we are wont to forget God 09Draskh1    32:14 | and He in turn forgets us, He stirs us up in 09Draskh1    32:14 | turn forgets us, He stirs us up in this manner in 09Draskh1    32:15 | He admonishes by the sword our wickedness and folly 09Draskh1    32:17 | no one is upright, because we have all gone astray and 09Draskh1    32:17 | tragic, if death, to which we are bound, comes to us 09Draskh1    32:17 | we are bound, comes to us in retribution 09Draskh1    32:19 | set up apply also to us, and treat everyone impartially, accept 09Draskh1    32:24 | because we did not come out of 09Draskh1    32:24 | with the Hagarites, from whom we learned their ways which proved 09Draskh1    32:24 | their ways which proved for us a stumbling-block 09Draskh1    32:25 | to your ears and let us look at subsequent events 09Draskh1    33:1 | perfidious ostikan Afshin, about whom we have already spoken, noticed the 09Draskh1    33:20 | The katholikos instructed us— being his bishop in residence 09Draskh1    33:20 | being his bishop in residence, we were deeply concerned—and the 09Draskh1    33:20 | manner for prisoners of war. We gathered at once the ransom 09Draskh1    33:20 | the orders of king Smbat, we were immediately sent to Hamam 09Draskh1    33:21 | had he arrived there, then our men hastened to meet him 09Draskh1    34:7 | great prince Ashot, about whom we spoke above, he summoned the 09Draskh1    36:1 | Tosp, near the church where our Holy Illuminator had laid down 09Draskh1    37:25 | all the tearful entreaties of us the clerics of the churches 09Draskh1    37:25 | arrogant feet did not trample us, nor could his lewd hands 09Draskh1    37:25 | could his lewd hands make us shake. The enemy who loved 09Draskh1    38:17 | met his end, and afflicted us with deep grief 09Draskh1    40:19 | Our chief naxarars, being secure and 09Draskh1    43:7 | secrecy) was drawn aside, and we became aware of the raging 09Draskh1    43:8 | from the sacred repository of our house, so that somehow I 09Draskh1    43:9 | due to the intrigues of our own countrymen against him found 09Draskh1    43:11 | the ostikan to march upon our land. Then, prostrating himself before 09Draskh1    43:15 | set forth and came to our land, where I followed him 09Draskh1    44:5 | was cunningly plotting to torment our people, as well as being 09Draskh1    44:10 | wicked enslavers extensively spread throughout our land, I heeded the order 09Draskh1    44:10 | Caucasus. These people were of our fold, and flocks of our 09Draskh1    44:10 | our fold, and flocks of our pasture. Each one of them 09Draskh1    44:11 | Departing from there, we went to the region of 09Draskh1    44:11 | Gugark’ and resided there, expecting our salvation from the Lord 09Draskh1    45:11 | spread the extensive conflagration throughout our land, where at midday dusk 09Draskh1    45:11 | if it were night. Putting our laborious toils on the scale 09Draskh1    45:11 | laborious toils on the scale, we discovered that the burdensome fetter 09Draskh1    45:11 | burdensome fetter weighed heavier on us than the stones in the 09Draskh1    45:11 | spears of the Lord struck us 09Draskh1    45:12 | planted in the midst of our reasonable vineyards and turned into 09Draskh1    45:13 | shedding tears, for Providence disregarded us because of our lawlessness, and 09Draskh1    45:13 | Providence disregarded us because of our lawlessness, and the righteous sun 09Draskh1    45:13 | righteous sun looked askance at us because of the black notoriety 09Draskh1    45:13 | of the black notoriety of our deeds. We fell into the 09Draskh1    45:13 | black notoriety of our deeds. We fell into the hands of 09Draskh1    45:13 | relentless agents, who inflicted on us more wounds, than (one would 09Draskh1    45:13 | to make bricks. They destroyed us by striking blow upon blow 09Draskh1    45:14 | winds blew bitterly and banishing us from our homes, disappeared whirling 09Draskh1    45:14 | bitterly and banishing us from our homes, disappeared whirling away like 09Draskh1    45:14 | their foolish spirit by driving us to slaughter like sheep 09Draskh1    45:15 | of misfortunes that came upon us 09Draskh1    45:20 | accordance with the foreboding prophet, our sons, who faint and are 09Draskh1    45:20 | all the streets, cannot comfort us 09Draskh1    45:21 | and acrid stench rose in our midst that even though we 09Draskh1    45:21 | our midst that even though we were honored and blessed with 09Draskh1    45:21 | the kindness of God’s will, we did not duly acknowledge Him 09Draskh1    45:21 | duly acknowledge Him from whom we received good things, and contrary 09Draskh1    45:21 | to the call of duty, we were not thankful to the 09Draskh1    45:21 | of comfort. Because of this we were admonished with such misfortunes 09Draskh1    45:21 | repaid for the sins in our bosom sevenfold 09Draskh1    45:22 | prophet is in mourning with us when he says, “Judah has 09Draskh1    45:23 | of bitterness sprouted more from our house than from outside 09Draskh1    45:24 | and impiety, and spoke before our princes words that were deceptive 09Draskh1    45:24 | words. Before the eyes of our generals and chief princes the 09Draskh1    45:25 | For this reason, we received insults from deceitful and 09Draskh1    45:25 | and insolent men, who made us the laughingstock of the nations 09Draskh1    45:25 | the nations that lived around us. The flock, together with her 09Draskh1    46:1 | perilous toils that came upon us, namely the sickle flying through 09Draskh1    46:1 | blood of the children of our land, which slaughtered many and 09Draskh1    46:2 | In this way we witnessed the spread of the 09Draskh1    46:2 | suffered by the children of our people, who were struck with 09Draskh1    46:4 | me, and publicly announce to us the sad news of the 09Draskh1    46:4 | of the vengeful retribution for our acts on the day of 09Draskh1    46:4 | insatiably devour the bodies of our chief princes who are wounded 09Draskh1    46:9 | For it was because of our sins, that our days ended 09Draskh1    46:9 | because of our sins, that our days ended in mist and 09Draskh1    46:19 | fetters on the daughters of our land could not be released 09Draskh1    47:2 | at the sandy foundations of our dwelling 09Draskh1    47:8 | in all the regions of our land, and since there was 09Draskh1    47:11 | to the different regions of our land raised (burning) flames throughout 09Draskh1    47:11 | land raised (burning) flames throughout our country like fire struck by 09Draskh1    47:12 | the Lord of hosts showed us what to expect in the 09Draskh1    47:13 | brigands spread their flames among our people like blazing fires in 09Draskh1    48:7 | afflictions that had come upon us, he gathered numerous forces in 09Draskh1    48:8 | numbers of the kinsmen of our king, the princes, governors and 09Draskh1    48:9 | that which had formerly befallen our Trdat 09Draskh1    49:15 | that as it may, let us leave these matters to those 09Draskh1    49:15 | not hesitate to narrate what we ourselves have witnessed with our 09Draskh1    49:15 | we ourselves have witnessed with our own eyes 09Draskh1    50:9 | sent their raiding forces throughout our land. At first, in a 09Draskh1    51:0 | Disastrous Calamities that Came upon Our Land, and the Martyrdom of 09Draskh1    51:4 | respective regions, and some of our people, panting for breath, could 09Draskh1    51:4 | hearts of all and made us fruitful prey for death 09Draskh1    51:23 | in whispers in closets, namely, “ We are Christians and we cannot 09Draskh1    51:23 | namely, “We are Christians and we cannot obey your impious laws 09Draskh1    51:34 | good faith openly before everyone: “ We are Christians, and do not 09Draskh1    51:38 | yourself to Christ, Who is our hope, and offer yourself as 09Draskh1    51:38 | to Him, Who died for us and restored us to life 09Draskh1    51:38 | died for us and restored us to life 09Draskh1    52:0 | Aggression of Foreign Nations upon Our Land, and the Disunity among 09Draskh1    52:0 | Land, and the Disunity among Our Naxarars 09Draskh1    52:1 | for the neighboring nations surrounding us, namely the Greeks, the people 09Draskh1    52:2 | who rose in arms against our country. At their hands the 09Draskh1    52:4 | and covered the face of our land with corpses. Generally taking 09Draskh1    52:5 | depopulated, barren, desolate and devastated, our awans and shens resembled the 09Draskh1    52:5 | in the meadows dried out. Our cities were destroyed by lack 09Draskh1    52:5 | destroyed by lack of population; our tillers were worn out and 09Draskh1    52:6 | Thus, our shame covered us, and through 09Draskh1    52:6 | Thus, our shame covered us, and through us the prophesy 09Draskh1    52:6 | shame covered us, and through us the prophesy of Isaiah came 09Draskh1    52:7 | While we suffered such afflictions at the 09Draskh1    52:7 | hands of the foreign invaders, we had our eyes fixed on 09Draskh1    52:7 | the foreign invaders, we had our eyes fixed on our kings 09Draskh1    52:7 | had our eyes fixed on our kings, as well as the 09Draskh1    52:7 | princes, lords and naxarars of our land, and raised our hopes 09Draskh1    52:7 | of our land, and raised our hopes high, thinking that the 09Draskh1    52:8 | Thus ( we expected) (them to liberate the 09Draskh1    52:9 | However, this is not what we witnessed; on the contrary it 09Draskh1    52:10 | On the other hand, our kings, lords and princes tried 09Draskh1    52:13 | invasions of the brigands against us, in accordance with the words 09Draskh1    52:14 | With us the other prophesy also came 09Draskh1    52:16 | of these the prophet joins us lamenting the former affluence and 09Draskh1    53:1 | the severe disasters (brought on us by the enemy), the elements 09Draskh1    53:1 | of nature also turned on us the bitter impediments of evil 09Draskh1    53:2 | Formerly, our tillers were extremely zealous in 09Draskh1    53:2 | are dishearted, and disabled; then our granaries were full, while presently 09Draskh1    53:8 | We put to work ten yoke 09Draskh1    53:8 | full of crops in return). We sowed, but reaped naught, planted 09Draskh1    53:8 | not produce their yield. If we stored anything at all, it 09Draskh1    53:9 | Thus, we realized the meaning of the 09Draskh1    53:9 | meaning of the divine words, “ We toiled, and others have come 09Draskh1    53:9 | in for the harvest of our toil 09Draskh1    53:10 | In this manner we were deprived of any hope 09Draskh1    53:10 | the good, and shame covered our faces 09Draskh1    53:12 | blazing fire that came upon us, and the merciless sword of 09Draskh1    53:12 | warriors that always poured on us the stench of death, continued 09Draskh1    53:12 | of death, continued (to scourge us) for a period of seven 09Draskh1    53:12 | For this reason, those of us that survived migrated to the 09Draskh1    53:12 | Kedar, and were deprived of our possessions, allowances of supplies, and 09Draskh1    53:25 | These afflictions (that came upon us) should be mourned much more 09Draskh1    53:27 | Thus the children of our people were condemned to perdition 09Draskh1    53:27 | condemned to perdition because of our wickedness, and they were destroyed 09Draskh1    53:32 | these beasts. The torpor about our sins also spread its mist 09Draskh1    53:33 | every one, and because of our sins the shadow of death 09Draskh1    53:33 | the shadow of death covered us. As we did not keep 09Draskh1    53:33 | of death covered us. As we did not keep the covenant 09Draskh1    53:33 | of the Lord, He abandoned us 09Draskh1    54:1 | hardships that had come upon us, wrote me the following letter 09Draskh1    54:1 | God-loving, spiritual Father, and our very dear brother Lord Yovhannes 09Draskh1    54:2 | sorrow and ceaseless grief of our heart on behalf of the 09Draskh1    54:3 | Although we could not witness with our 09Draskh1    54:3 | we could not witness with our own eyes the visitation of 09Draskh1    54:3 | danger upon your flock, as we are physically beyond range, yet 09Draskh1    54:3 | the hands of the wicked, we deplore it with deep personal 09Draskh1    54:4 | If those of us, who are at a great 09Draskh1    54:9 | We sent another letter like this 09Draskh1    54:9 | chief (prince) of Abasgia, whom we advised to listen to you 09Draskh1    54:12 | yourselves carry out these matters, our Emperor who is crowned by 09Draskh1    54:12 | nobility of Armenia might join our forces, and with the help 09Draskh1    54:13 | Only then, both you and we shall grant them remission for 09Draskh1    54:15 | shine with holiness, be with our Humility 09Draskh1    54:19 | However, our adversary who had trampled under 09Draskh1    54:20 | to all the corners of our land, and also tried to 09Draskh1    54:26 | peace-makers for all of us that exist, Images of the 09Draskh1    54:30 | We ourselves, and the bishops with 09Draskh1    54:30 | ourselves, and the bishops with us, as well as the entire 09Draskh1    54:30 | his wild frenzy, brought on us the tempest of bitterness and 09Draskh1    54:31 | Nevertheless, we preserved within ourselves the grace 09Draskh1    54:31 | Like Paul supplicating, first let us offer ceaseless prayers, beseeching implorations 09Draskh1    54:31 | solicitations as well as express our gratitude, which is due to 09Draskh1    54:33 | O servant of God, our benefactor, autocrat, and Christ-crowned 09Draskh1    54:33 | the afflictions that came upon us. It is about us who 09Draskh1    54:33 | upon us. It is about us who are in despair, that 09Draskh1    54:34 | We who are serving as spokesman 09Draskh1    54:34 | serving as spokesman have directed our thoughts your way with joyful 09Draskh1    54:34 | your way with joyful expectation. We are doing this softly and 09Draskh1    54:34 | gently, in accordance with what we were taught, namely “Let no 09Draskh1    54:35 | imperial highnesses to come to our rescue 09Draskh1    54:36 | of the atrocious afflictions that we suffered 09Draskh1    54:37 | enemy of righteousness rose against us with all of its might 09Draskh1    54:38 | enemies, and as long as we lived safely under the auspices 09Draskh1    54:39 | But as soon as we became negligent of our duties 09Draskh1    54:39 | as we became negligent of our duties to you, the venom 09Draskh1    54:39 | one to seek vengeance from our slanderer. Once again the accursed 09Draskh1    54:46 | sword, until the foundations of our land were filled with the 09Draskh1    54:48 | Because of our sins the guardian of the 09Draskh1    54:50 | sword, and deprived all of us of the care of your 09Draskh1    54:50 | and disaster from above trouble us. But your prudent foster-son 09Draskh1    54:50 | son is no longer among us in order to advise and 09Draskh1    54:52 | come and fell Israel, and we are surrounded on all sides 09Draskh1    54:52 | Maccabee is unable to save us from the menace of these 09Draskh1    54:52 | these afflictions. Antiochus is forcing us to foresake our Christian faith 09Draskh1    54:52 | is forcing us to foresake our Christian faith, while Matthathias is 09Draskh1    54:53 | abandoned, this eastern land of ours is moaning constantly due to 09Draskh1    54:54 | come and taken possession of us, and (is bearing) the anguish 09Draskh1    54:57 | I am a tormented man, our Hope Christ, Who is known 09Draskh1    54:60 | your servants who were killed. We all drank the goblet of 09Draskh1    54:60 | goblet of wrath (given to us) by the southern tyranny. We 09Draskh1    54:60 | us) by the southern tyranny. We imbibed to the dregs the 09Draskh1    54:60 | those who brought misery upon us 09Draskh1    54:63 | Shake off of us this dust, to which our 09Draskh1    54:63 | us this dust, to which our waist is glued, and lift 09Draskh1    54:63 | is glued, and lift from our necks the yoke, which was 09Draskh1    54:63 | yoke, which was imposed on us by the tyrant for the 09Draskh1    54:63 | for the entire duration of our lives. Cleanse this land and 09Draskh1    54:64 | harm that she brought on us 09Draskh1    54:69 | ancestors at the beginning of our conversion, and made secure by 09Draskh1    54:71 | God, and do not deprive us of meeting your majesties who 09Draskh1    54:73 | the auspices of your wings we might tend to the flock 09Draskh1    54:73 | the flock of God among us, and always offer our ceaseless 09Draskh1    54:73 | among us, and always offer our ceaseless prayers to God for 09Draskh1    54:74 | of your glory and grace we shall prepare the Armenian nation 09Draskh1    54:81 | strength of Christ, and let us bless your name gloriously, Augustus 09Draskh1    55:1 | might still be abounding around us, and learning of our distress 09Draskh1    55:1 | around us, and learning of our distress and destruction as well 09Draskh1    55:2 | Ashot’s father Smbat, and urged us to make haste to pay 09Draskh1    55:10 | her the thrice blessed (Grigor) our Illuminator 09Draskh1    55:13 | rock where the source of our enlightenment ([i.e.], St. Grigor the Illuminator 09Draskh1    55:14 | spring of him who renovated us, and whose seat I possess 09Draskh1    55:20 | by the flattering words of our kings, and, deceived by their 09Draskh1    55:21 | of iniquity, and because of our own (leaders) our wretched land 09Draskh1    55:21 | because of our own (leaders) our wretched land was shaken 09Draskh1    58:1 | King Ashot, about whom we were speaking recently, heard that 09Draskh1    60:22 | shall be uniform peace between us, just like that between a 09Draskh1    63:4 | friendship, and immediately both of us set out to meet the 09Draskh1    64:13 | consoled himself as follows: “Although we are terrified and shaken by 09Draskh1    64:25 | those rebellious races about whom we spoke above found the chance 09Draskh1    65:10 | severity of the agonies which our faithful lords imbibed to the 09Draskh1    65:11 | escape the siege that threatened us. The clergy who were with 09Draskh1    65:12 | the church, or bring upon us confusion along with the disreputable 09Draskh1    65:13 | seemingly crazed and out of our wits, we sought the grace 09Draskh1    65:13 | and out of our wits, we sought the grace of God 09Draskh1    65:13 | grace of God to show us ( the proper course). And when 09Draskh1    65:13 | of night once again surrounded us 09Draskh1    65:14 | Absolutely amazed at this phenomenon, we noticed that the sun had 09Draskh1    65:14 | an eclipse of the sun, we acknowledged this as an authentic 09Draskh1    65:14 | an authentic sign manifested to us by the Lord God. Thereafter 09Draskh1    65:16 | Gegh, in a small glen, we ascended directly to the Upper 09Draskh1    65:17 | We were deprived of all of 09Draskh1    65:17 | were deprived of all of our human and animal possessions, and 09Draskh1    65:17 | possessions, and only thought of our salvation. Here, the brethren of 09Draskh1    65:17 | brethren of the congregation joined us in raising our voices in 09Draskh1    65:17 | congregation joined us in raising our voices in blessing God. We 09Draskh1    65:17 | our voices in blessing God. We remained in Sewan for a 09Draskh1    65:18 | Thereupon, all of our minds seemed to embark on 09Draskh1    65:18 | sail to the thoughts in our hearts, we carried them out 09Draskh1    65:18 | the thoughts in our hearts, we carried them out like hidden 09Draskh1    65:18 | from a depository, so that we could express in words the 09Draskh1    65:18 | stored within the depths of our minds 09Draskh1    65:19 | Our intention was as follows: to 09Draskh1    65:19 | possessions and the livestock which we had abandoned much against our 09Draskh1    65:19 | we had abandoned much against our will, to relinquish these willingly 09Draskh1    65:19 | of her nuptial chamber, and we ourselves returning to our holy 09Draskh1    65:19 | and we ourselves returning to our holy edifice might bless the 09Draskh1    65:19 | might bless the name of our God 09Draskh1    65:20 | the proper course. Once again we set out and arrived at 09Draskh1    65:21 | As soon as we had reached Biwrakan, I immediately 09Draskh1    65:24 | remain at the threshold of our sanctuary 09Draskh1    66:2 | words against the doctrines of our faith, and calls the Arabs 09Draskh1    66:10 | We escaped and went to the 09Draskh1    66:11 | But Sahak, our blessed bishop-in-residence, together 09Draskh1    66:11 | not permit them to follow us, or even that they assumed 09Draskh1    66:16 | the following manner: “Until now we tried to please our generals 09Draskh1    66:16 | now we tried to please our generals by devoting our lives 09Draskh1    66:16 | please our generals by devoting our lives to the welfare of 09Draskh1    66:16 | now as good soldiers let us share the passion of Christ 09Draskh1    66:20 | instructed them on matters beyond our teachings—subjects into the truth 09Draskh1    66:20 | the war which is distressing us 09Draskh1    66:22 | which has become thick around us. Let them (the enemy) not 09Draskh1    66:31 | this ailment, which has afflicted us, hasten to inflict on you 09Draskh1    66:46 | the following words: “Almighty God Our Lord, Who art All-merciful 09Draskh1    66:46 | All-merciful, and All-caring, we thank Thee for giving us 09Draskh1    66:46 | we thank Thee for giving us patience to suffer (the hardships 09Draskh1    66:46 | hardships) in this trial. For we did not forget Thee, nor 09Draskh1    66:46 | not forget Thee, nor did we forsake Thine covenant, or betray 09Draskh1    66:46 | covenant, or betray Thee in our hearts. Thou hast made us 09Draskh1    66:46 | our hearts. Thou hast made us worthy of attaining the Light 09Draskh1    66:47 | Now, accept our congregation in peace, and save 09Draskh1    66:47 | soil, and paid taxes to us 09Draskh1    66:48 | their own tongue: “like you, we are of the fold of 09Draskh1    66:49 | walked away, saying, “Christ is our life, and death is to 09Draskh1    66:49 | life, and death is to our advantage.” Thus the deathbreathing thirsty 09Draskh1    66:52 | life of rigid austerity among us; in a miraculous manner he 09Draskh1    66:52 | the deacon T’eodoros, about whom we spoke in advance, and who 09Draskh1    66:55 | set out to come to us. It was he who narrated 09Draskh1    66:55 | was he who narrated to us one by one the details 09Draskh1    66:59 | of the arrogant come against us, and let not the hands 09Draskh1    66:59 | the hands of sinners move us.” Along with the captives the 09Draskh1    66:63 | It is not lawful for us Christians to forsake the divine 09Draskh1    66:63 | the ungodly religion of Muhammad. We are ready to die in 09Draskh1    67:14 | about whose bravery in war we spoke earlier, by chance happened 09Draskh1    67:18 | entirely seized by Nasr, and we had been left without a 09Draskh1    67:20 | and cheerful thoughts, and assured us with certainty that he would 09Draskh1    67:20 | best of his ability, that we returned to our place of 09Draskh1    67:20 | ability, that we returned to our place of residence, and in 09Draskh1    67:28 | Henceforth, let us not be unaware of the 09Draskh1    67:28 | the wicked tillers, who reap us with shadowy siege, for if 09Draskh1    67:28 | the Creator had designed for us we had directed our glance 09Draskh1    67:28 | Creator had designed for us we had directed our glance to 09Draskh1    67:28 | for us we had directed our glance to the heavens above 09Draskh1    67:28 | the heavens above, and if we conducted ourselves in the image 09Draskh1    67:28 | the Creator, to be sure, we would have been saved by 09Draskh1    67:28 | fallen into the hands of our enemies. But rather, we also 09Draskh1    67:28 | of our enemies. But rather, we also would have slain our 09Draskh1    67:28 | we also would have slain our adversaries, who would fall to 09Draskh1    67:28 | many people would have called us “ blessed on the face of 09Draskh1    67:30 | But as we have become dull like cattle 09Draskh1    67:30 | enemies of the Lord deceived us. Like the mud on the 09Draskh1    67:30 | the mud on the streets we were trampled by the swine 09Draskh1    67:30 | of Achor were piled on our heads 09Draskh1    68:1 | leaders and commanders of Armenia, our brethren and apostles of the 09Draskh1    68:2 | Lord sharpened his eyes upon us for our iniquity 09Draskh1    68:2 | his eyes upon us for our iniquity 09Draskh1    68:4 | by the sufferings that surrounded us and then by the urgent 09Draskh1    68:7 | this place of torments where we have now become universally lethargic 09Draskh1    68:12 | confusion that deceived and deceives us through the passions of our 09Draskh1    68:12 | us through the passions of our nature. Set aside seductive thoughts 09Draskh1    68:22 | and I may perhaps receive our remuneration from the Lord Who 10Tovma1    1:0 | command of your lordship obliges us to pursue rapidly this search 10Tovma1    1:0 | beginning from Adam down to our own time 10Tovma1    1:1 | accounts, the next task for us is to set down in 10Tovma1    1:1 | there is no need for us to repeat that at length 10Tovma1    1:6 | leader of the Hebrews, and our Haramay 10Tovma1    1:7 | reason for this enquiry. (Rather we should) expound it in toto 10Tovma1    1:8 | Assyria. This is confirmed for us by Eusebius of Caesarea and 10Tovma1    1:12 | example I can quote you our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ 10Tovma1    1:19 | of my narrative has brought us to this question, we must 10Tovma1    1:19 | brought us to this question, we must first realize by what 10Tovma1    1:22 | Since we were anxious to comprehend these 10Tovma1    1:22 | and not skim over them, we must here make a little 10Tovma1    1:22 | make a little pause in our narrative so that we may 10Tovma1    1:22 | in our narrative so that we may compare the tales of 10Tovma1    1:22 | church) with Divine Scripture. Then we shall set our sights on 10Tovma1    1:22 | Scripture. Then we shall set our sights on later events 10Tovma1    1:29 | inventor of evil. To which we respond that in every way 10Tovma1    1:31 | been taken. So what shall we do with regard to these 10Tovma1    1:31 | save) burst into sighs in our lament that the divinely blessed 10Tovma1    1:32 | with many laments and groaning we must quote the prophet’s saying 10Tovma1    1:34 | be accompanied by mercy. Let us see if this seems good 10Tovma1    1:45 | heritage has been preserved for us in successive descent. There are 10Tovma1    1:45 | filled the world. But let us now follow the thread of 10Tovma1    1:45 | now follow the thread of our story 10Tovma1    1:67 | expression of incertitude. Of these we say that if this command 10Tovma1    1:72 | belt—at Bel’s command? But we shall linger here no further 10Tovma1    1:73 | Epiphanius expounds in order. But we said we would repeat the 10Tovma1    1:73 | in order. But we said we would repeat the account of 10Tovma1    1:73 | of Eusebius of Caesarea teaches us 10Tovma1    1:77 | nations that came after him. We have now recalled the genealogy 10Tovma1    1:77 | first patriarchs in brief, because our especial concern was to know 10Tovma1    1:77 | the men who ruled over our land and the kings of 10Tovma1    2:1 | heroic follies does not serve our present enquiry, yet I shall 10Tovma1    2:2 | carefully in Babylon—which book we know was (written) after the 10Tovma1    2:3 | times and events—which inconsistencies we do not think appropriate to 10Tovma1    2:13 | of building the tower. Hence we know that the original language 10Tovma1    3:1 | exposition of those times that we mentioned above—from the days 10Tovma1    3:16 | not for frivolous reasons that we resolved to write these things 10Tovma1    3:19 | Our ancestor Adam they said was 10Tovma1    3:19 | world, and leaving there became our patriarch 10Tovma1    3:21 | discussion told me: “Many of us reached a part of that 10Tovma1    3:24 | said of the demons. “And we heard the lashing of the 10Tovma1    3:24 | backs (of the punished), but we did not see the tormentors 10Tovma1    3:25 | baneful disease. In frightened terror we left there 10Tovma1    3:26 | of the earth. From there we set out across the desert 10Tovma1    3:26 | the sea. From then on we saw no more fowl or 10Tovma1    3:27 | We no longer saw the sun 10Tovma1    3:27 | weather for ten days. Then we arrived at a spot by 10Tovma1    3:27 | the camp (equipment) on board, we embarked and sailed to an 10Tovma1    3:27 | not far from land, whence we heard the voices of men 10Tovma1    3:27 | of men (speaking) Greek; but we did not see the speakers 10Tovma1    3:28 | We moved on from there in 10Tovma1    3:29 | Outside, after the journey, we came across a female ass 10Tovma1    3:29 | ass which had a foal. We immediately attached her foal to 10Tovma1    3:29 | foal to the army. When we had entered fifteen miles, two 10Tovma1    3:29 | fifteen miles, two birds met us which had human faces and 10Tovma1    3:32 | We shall take up other (tales 10Tovma1    3:38 | spirit is self-moving. Now we see that the heavenly body 10Tovma1    3:42 | These are wise conclusions. But we, following Divine Scripture, have not 10Tovma1    4:1 | We continue our text with the 10Tovma1    4:1 | We continue our text with the order of 10Tovma1    4:1 | kingdom of the Assyrians that we carefully set out above. Its 10Tovma1    5:0 | the early historians indicate to us. He gathered cavalry to attack 10Tovma1    6:1 | of the moment might dictate. We shall not attempt to consider 10Tovma1    6:2 | but we considered it sufficient merely to 10Tovma1    6:38 | time of) Queen Cleopatra, as we explained above 10Tovma1    6:39 | tales have come down to us through the chronicles of the 10Tovma1    6:40 | We too, at your command, Oh 10Tovma1    6:41 | This Vahan whom we mentioned is the same Vahan 10Tovma1    6:41 | chronological place. For now let us continue the order: Cyrus, Vargen 10Tovma1    6:45 | son Abgar became king. Here we come to the history of 10Tovma1    6:45 | the flesh on earth of our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ 10Tovma1    6:45 | Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, our God, the beginning of the 10Tovma1    6:48 | was from Bethsaida, and note: ’We wish to see Jesus.’ 10Tovma1    6:52 | We think this is sufficient indication 10Tovma1    6:52 | and deep wisdom. So let us carry forward the order of 10Tovma1    6:52 | carry forward the order of our history, in detail yet briefly 10Tovma1    6:52 | is not the occasion for us to linger with praises and 10Tovma1    6:52 | thereby) neglect the thread of our historical narrative 10Tovma1    6:53 | days of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ—as Josephus 10Tovma1    6:53 | Jesus Christ—as Josephus tells us, and also about what he 10Tovma1    6:57 | After the ascension of our Saviour and the death of 10Tovma1    6:61 | all the saints of Christ our God. Amen 10Tovma1    7:5 | have plotted against you, as we have heard from their confidants 10Tovma1    7:8 | reasons for his flight note: “ We brought up the sons of 10Tovma1    7:8 | that when you were king ( we) should have no grounds for 10Tovma1    8:1 | exile in the cavern that we mentioned above. So, he returned 10Tovma1    8:12 | ended is not clear to us 10Tovma1    9:1 | inflicting troubles on others as we read, unexpectedly there arrived the 10Tovma1    9:2 | Our king Khosrov was struck with 10Tovma1    9:5 | But we considered it merely sufficient to 10Tovma1    9:5 | generations of the family as we have labored to discover them 10Tovma1    10:4 | And as we said above, because of his 10Tovma1    10:4 | the Holy Gospel (which bids us) not to sit in the 10Tovma1    10:6 | Now as we said above concerning our important 10Tovma1    10:6 | as we said above concerning our important investigations in the chronicles 10Tovma1    10:6 | important investigations in the chronicles, we have confined ourselves to an 10Tovma1    10:7 | But we have merely indicated the most 10Tovma1    10:7 | royal pomp and fame, as we read in the eloquent composition 10Tovma1    10:7 | the most accurate author of our illumination, as he relates at 10Tovma1    10:10 | through the chief scribe. But we have been unable to discover 10Tovma1    10:11 | What we could not discover for certain 10Tovma1    10:11 | could not discover for certain we did not reckon worth putting 10Tovma1    10:18 | which had been built by our Holy Illuminator Gregory on his 10Tovma1    10:20 | important to write down what we have not verified 10Tovma1    10:21 | If it pleases you, let us go and hunt them 10Tovma1    10:34 | the illumination (of Armenia) by our father his holy altar, pastoral 10Tovma1    10:42 | refined instruments of torture as we read of in the book 10Tovma1    11:23 | care of what you desire. ( We must beware) lest some deceitful 10Tovma1    11:23 | Artashir with some falsehood about us, and your father Vasak make 10Tovma1    11:23 | trouble, so that they suppose we are plotting rebellion. But God 10Tovma1    11:41 | country in place of Artashir our king at the command of 10Tovma1    11:42 | and unnecessary hardship inflicted on our country from both sides, they 10Tovma1    11:55 | has been handed down to us in the fourth book of 10Tovma1    11:55 | of Saint Mesrop, confirms for us in this own accurate History 10Tovma1    11:56 | these, to the best of our ability we have composed this 10Tovma1    11:56 | the best of our ability we have composed this abbreviated narrative 10Tovma1    11:56 | composed this abbreviated narrative which we have presented to you, most 10Tovma2    2:5 | seeds of the Nestorian heresy. Our holy teacher Ełishē at that 10Tovma2    2:12 | They replied: “Since we were continuously preoccupied with Persian 10Tovma2    2:12 | continuously preoccupied with Persian raids we had to abandon the study 10Tovma2    2:12 | confession of faith. But while we were in our own country 10Tovma2    2:12 | But while we were in our own country, our prelates did 10Tovma2    2:12 | were in our own country, our prelates did not allow us 10Tovma2    2:12 | our prelates did not allow us to accept those formulations in 10Tovma2    2:13 | Now we cannot agree zealously to flatter 10Tovma2    2:13 | dignity demands. But please let us write to Armenia, to ask 10Tovma2    2:15 | by the Persian troubles.” Then our Artsruni magnates received permission to 10Tovma2    2:22 | weakens opponents; the Lord is our hope 10Tovma2    3:4 | the city of Tiflis. And we shall keep a peace treaty 10Tovma2    3:4 | keep a peace treaty between us and our sons who succeed 10Tovma2    3:4 | peace treaty between us and our sons who succeed us as 10Tovma2    3:4 | and our sons who succeed us as kings 10Tovma2    3:6 | side, and acting in unison we would exterminate that universal scourge 10Tovma2    3:11 | sorry for yourself more than us. For I see that you 10Tovma2    3:19 | Heraclius) came and ruled without our permission; he offers us as 10Tovma2    3:19 | without our permission; he offers us as a present our own 10Tovma2    3:19 | offers us as a present our own treasures, unaware that I 10Tovma2    3:28 | dry land, to fight with us thereon? God is able, if 10Tovma2    3:28 | sea into dry land before us 10Tovma2    3:29 | or holiness, but because of our impiety against the Lord. Our 10Tovma2    3:29 | our impiety against the Lord. Our sins have wrought this and 10Tovma2    3:30 | let him send him and we shall receive him. Behold, here 10Tovma2    3:31 | the land before you. Whether we so wish or not, God 10Tovma2    3:31 | God has taken it from us and delivered it into your 10Tovma2    3:32 | when God gave him into our hands? Yet they were merciful 10Tovma2    3:38 | the senseless Heraclius and to our abject slave. You did not 10Tovma2    3:38 | put yourself in subjection to us, but call yourself lord and 10Tovma2    3:40 | to sow and harvest; and we shall look benignly upon you 10Tovma2    3:51 | benevolent lord, have mercy on us, although we are not worthy 10Tovma2    3:51 | have mercy on us, although we are not worthy of mercy 10Tovma2    3:56 | counsel together and note: “Although we escaped from the enemy, yet 10Tovma2    3:56 | escaped from the enemy, yet we cannot elude his grasp. So 10Tovma2    3:56 | his grasp. So come, let us think of some plan 10Tovma2    3:64 | shall come to Asorestan; let us make a sworn pact between 10Tovma2    3:64 | pact between the two of us to rule in peace 10Tovma2    3:77 | came to an end, as we shall describe a little later 10Tovma2    4:3 | Ismael, indicating their close relationship: “ We are the sons of Abraham 10Tovma2    4:3 | are the sons of Abraham— we and you, brothers. You must 10Tovma2    4:3 | brothers. You must come to our help, and we shall take 10Tovma2    4:3 | come to our help, and we shall take the land of 10Tovma2    4:3 | shall take the land of our inheritance.” But although the latter 10Tovma2    4:12 | said to him: “Arise, let us go out, for there are 10Tovma2    4:12 | there are many men with us. Perhaps there may be some 10Tovma2    4:13 | the city of Madiam which we mentioned above 10Tovma2    4:17 | it suffice for you. Now we are the sons of Abraham 10Tovma2    4:17 | the promise made to Ismael our father. Give to us our 10Tovma2    4:17 | Ismael our father. Give to us our land peacefully, otherwise we 10Tovma2    4:17 | our father. Give to us our land peacefully, otherwise we shall 10Tovma2    4:17 | us our land peacefully, otherwise we shall take it by war 10Tovma2    4:22 | Now the Arian monk whom we mentioned above, Mahmet’s teacher, on 10Tovma2    4:25 | write perverse (things), of which we shall give brief extracts 10Tovma2    4:56 | down previously by others, so we considered it superfluous to repeat 10Tovma2    4:56 | of reign have been given us in various forms, perhaps because 10Tovma2    4:58 | But we now have to speak about 10Tovma2    4:58 | long period of time; and we shall describe the unbearable oppression 10Tovma2    4:58 | unbearable oppression that occurred in our days, which was the date 10Tovma2    6:12 | fomented in this manner, suddenly our valiant Ashot arrived. In a 10Tovma2    6:18 | Now we must return to earlier events 10Tovma2    6:18 | the sword. The description surpasses our ( ability), yet it is not 10Tovma2    6:22 | to capture, ravage, and ruin our country? Now we have never 10Tovma2    6:22 | and ruin our country? Now we have never contravened the king’s 10Tovma2    6:22 | as governors have the right, we shall give you the (due 10Tovma2    6:36 | of the Arsacid house of our former kings. Gradually, step by 10Tovma2    6:40 | So eventually there fell upon us these terrible evils and irreversible 10Tovma2    6:42 | that their inheritance would become “ ours.” First he would lay hands 10Tovma2    6:42 | able to resist and oppose us 10Tovma2    6:44 | out successfully the plan which we have resolved on against the 10Tovma2    6:44 | and matters turn out as we ardently desire, and you are 10Tovma2    6:44 | are able to bring to us in chains the Armenian princes 10Tovma2    6:50 | Such is our concern and (it is) for 10Tovma2    6:50 | desire the same. So when we see your benevolent solicitude for 10Tovma2    6:50 | and (your) friendly kindness towards us, we shall be most eager 10Tovma2    6:50 | your) friendly kindness towards us, we shall be most eager to 10Tovma2    7:6 | Bagarat in the name of our Saviour at the expense of 10Tovma3    1:1 | Up to this point we have not hesitated to relate 10Tovma3    1:1 | dangers and tribulations which befell us from the enemies of the 10Tovma3    1:2 | For although we were oppressed and tormented with 10Tovma3    1:2 | many more were they whom we smote than we who were 10Tovma3    1:2 | they whom we smote than we who were smitten. For the 10Tovma3    1:12 | day of retribution, to compensate us for our deeds and to 10Tovma3    1:12 | retribution, to compensate us for our deeds and to strike our 10Tovma3    1:12 | our deeds and to strike our feet against a rock. The 10Tovma3    1:12 | destruction has arrived close to our doors, for “behold the Lord 10Tovma3    1:12 | has come in readiness against us,” as Moses wrote 10Tovma3    1:14 | to serve the religion of our prophet and legislator 10Tovma3    1:15 | Then all our plans will easily be carried 10Tovma3    1:17 | gate of divine wrath upon us. This vengeful chastisement was inflicted 10Tovma3    1:17 | because of the impieties that we had all committed, from the 10Tovma3    1:17 | beginning of the rule of our ancestors, when God gave the 10Tovma3    1:17 | their hands, and down to our time no one has been 10Tovma3    1:17 | has been able to resist us, neither from distant lands nor 10Tovma3    1:18 | inflicted such embarrassing reverses on us, our nation and army and 10Tovma3    1:18 | such embarrassing reverses on us, our nation and army and our 10Tovma3    1:18 | our nation and army and our generals, as has Ashot prince 10Tovma3    1:19 | and captivity. Bring hastily to us in bonds the princes, lords 10Tovma3    2:4 | care lest “perchance he elude our clutches, or unexpectedly attack us 10Tovma3    2:4 | our clutches, or unexpectedly attack us by night and cause a 10Tovma3    2:17 | great king through obedience to our ruling and commanding king 10Tovma3    2:20 | But because none of us was then present at the 10Tovma3    2:20 | at the blessed one’s responses, we did not consider it right 10Tovma3    2:25 | This was told to us by the great priest Samuel 10Tovma3    2:42 | their line came near to our valiant Ashot, the elite general 10Tovma3    2:43 | they trembled in awe of our heroic prince and victorious warrior 10Tovma3    2:50 | So we, the chief nobles of the 10Tovma3    2:50 | another Vahram the bodyguard of our prince, and other groups of 10Tovma3    2:50 | and military leaders, having in our hands the oversight of this 10Tovma3    2:51 | only you will graciously allow us and our clan, the native 10Tovma3    2:51 | will graciously allow us and our clan, the native inhabitants of 10Tovma3    2:51 | clan, the native inhabitants of our land, to remain in each 10Tovma3    2:51 | dwelling and be at peace, we shall deliver Ashot into your 10Tovma3    2:51 | Now you will not reckon us as rebels against His Imperial 10Tovma3    2:52 | too, that Gurgēn, brother of our prince, the other members of 10Tovma3    2:56 | general, see for sure, and we shall understand and know how 10Tovma3    2:56 | shall understand and know how we may be able to placate 10Tovma3    2:68 | of the Muslims, they responded: “ We are not able to oppose 10Tovma3    2:68 | as prepared for defence as we thought, nor are the stores 10Tovma3    2:73 | Then Smbat Bagratuni, whom we mentioned above, the prince of 10Tovma3    2:75 | that those who greatly hate us and are our enemies may 10Tovma3    2:75 | greatly hate us and are our enemies may see and be 10Tovma3    2:75 | see and be ashamed, while our friends and those who love 10Tovma3    2:75 | friends and those who love us may greatly rejoice 10Tovma3    3:0 | The captivity and banishment from our country of the prince and 10Tovma3    4:19 | But to us he is known for his 10Tovma3    4:21 | site of the battlefield where our valiant princes of Vaspurakan were 10Tovma3    4:30 | the Armenian force saying: “Behold, we have sent away from us 10Tovma3    4:30 | we have sent away from us our troops and there are 10Tovma3    4:30 | have sent away from us our troops and there are but 10Tovma3    4:30 | there are but few with us. Do you likewise come with 10Tovma3    4:30 | more or less, and let us see each other 10Tovma3    4:31 | were to follow the messengers “ we shall seize him, his troops 10Tovma3    4:31 | troops will be discouraged, and we shall easily defeat them 10Tovma3    4:39 | in his hand and pursues us all by himself.” He turned 10Tovma3    5:11 | and land, the equal of our legislator Muhammad and faithful mediator 10Tovma3    5:12 | you might rapidly deliver to us Ashot and his brothers 10Tovma3    5:14 | letter arrives, send quickly to us in bonds Gurgēn and his 10Tovma3    5:15 | faithlessly and be false to our oaths. See for yourself and 10Tovma3    5:20 | spread over the face of our land; they had followed him 10Tovma3    5:23 | reeds, so it happened to us 10Tovma3    5:25 | him many prisoners, having ruined our land both on coming and 10Tovma3    6:1 | Our annals at this point of 10Tovma3    6:1 | bitterness, concerning the undertaking of our great princes and nobles. My 10Tovma3    6:2 | in writing the perdition of our lords and the misfortunes they 10Tovma3    6:3 | and terrible misfortunes which befell us 10Tovma3    6:13 | king, do you speak with us as if we were obstinate 10Tovma3    6:13 | speak with us as if we were obstinate subordinates, insignificant, wild 10Tovma3    6:13 | wild, and ferocious? Before subjecting us to punishment with cruel tortures 10Tovma3    6:13 | with cruel tortures, by striking us with your words as if 10Tovma3    6:13 | with stones you have plunged our souls into consternation. You know 10Tovma3    6:13 | into consternation. You know who we are, whence (we come), and 10Tovma3    6:13 | know who we are, whence ( we come), and from whom we 10Tovma3    6:13 | we come), and from whom we are descended 10Tovma3    6:14 | What our names are is perfectly clear 10Tovma3    6:14 | is perfectly clear to you. We are not rebels against your 10Tovma3    6:14 | against your imperial rule. But our troubles have been multiplied. Since 10Tovma3    6:14 | troubles have been multiplied. Since we have sinned before the Lord 10Tovma3    6:14 | have sinned before the Lord our God and have disregarded the 10Tovma3    6:14 | his commandments, God has delivered us into your hands. So behold 10Tovma3    6:14 | into your hands. So behold we have come and stand before 10Tovma3    6:15 | saying: “From long since, from our royal ancestors down to our 10Tovma3    6:15 | our royal ancestors down to our present time, we have held 10Tovma3    6:15 | down to our present time, we have held many races and 10Tovma3    6:15 | and kings in subjection to our empire, but we have not 10Tovma3    6:15 | subjection to our empire, but we have not paid such care 10Tovma3    6:15 | of them as much as we have to you and your 10Tovma3    6:16 | the governors and overseers of our land, the royal administrators whom 10Tovma3    6:16 | land, the royal administrators whom we sent you. You would gather 10Tovma3    6:16 | up battle lines, and destroy our armies with the sword. Our 10Tovma3    6:16 | our armies with the sword. Our kinsmen you used to beset 10Tovma3    6:17 | But behold, we paid no attention to all 10Tovma3    6:17 | the affection and mercy which we claim to have for you 10Tovma3    6:18 | However, since we now see you, personable and 10Tovma3    6:18 | noble countenance, decorous and elegant, ( we realise that) you are true 10Tovma3    6:18 | and benevolent men, full of our kindness, with unrepenting audacity. But 10Tovma3    6:19 | and cruel torments, submit to us and our legislator Mahumaf; receive 10Tovma3    6:19 | torments, submit to us and our legislator Mahumaf; receive (his) faith 10Tovma3    6:20 | Then we shall disregard your harmful acts 10Tovma3    6:20 | disregard your harmful acts against us of which you are guilty 10Tovma3    6:24 | We have received and believe in 10Tovma3    6:24 | and believe in the truth; we cannot exchange the truth for 10Tovma3    6:25 | let punishment be inflicted on us. We are ready for bonds 10Tovma3    6:25 | punishment be inflicted on us. We are ready for bonds, prison 10Tovma3    6:27 | is the custom for kings, we did not reckon it appropriate 10Tovma3    6:29 | is not the custom for our majesty to (allow) anyone to 10Tovma3    6:29 | give such long speeches as we have done for you. We 10Tovma3    6:29 | we have done for you. We shall do it (no) more 10Tovma3    6:33 | this transitory world, they note: “ We accept the royal commands,” with 10Tovma3    6:35 | But that Vasak whom we mentioned above among the great 10Tovma3    6:37 | unrepentant, and without scruple—let us eject him from the annals 10Tovma3    6:45 | the psalm: “For your sake we die continuously. We have been 10Tovma3    6:45 | your sake we die continuously. We have been considered as sheep 10Tovma3    6:49 | saying: “Blessed is the Lord our God, who instructed our hands 10Tovma3    6:49 | Lord our God, who instructed our hands for war and our 10Tovma3    6:49 | our hands for war and our fingers for combat,” and what 10Tovma3    6:56 | barbarians who are crueler to us than poisonous beasts. But he 10Tovma3    6:59 | fell asleep in Christ Jesus our Lord—to whom be glory 10Tovma3    6:61 | great rejoicing in Christ Jesus our Lord—to whom be glory 10Tovma3    7:3 | So come, let us set forth a brief refutation 10Tovma3    7:3 | churches of orthodox believers. Let us turn to the Elkesites, who 10Tovma3    7:7 | So lest we too fall into the same 10Tovma3    7:7 | into the same (error), let us learn from the divinely inspired 10Tovma3    7:7 | travel the level road; let us not be diverted to the 10Tovma3    7:7 | right or the left. Let us purify our lips by uttering 10Tovma3    7:7 | the left. Let us purify our lips by uttering a pure 10Tovma3    7:7 | a pure confession and keep our minds unsullied in the true 10Tovma3    7:10 | Spirit. “For with the heart we believe in righteousness, and with 10Tovma3    7:10 | righteousness, and with the mouth we confess salvation,” as the apostle 10Tovma3    7:12 | he demands the fruit of our lips that confess his name 10Tovma3    7:13 | the word of faith which we preach.” And to Timothy he 10Tovma3    7:13 | the faith is trustworthy: “If we deny (him), he will deny 10Tovma3    7:13 | deny (him), he will deny us, even if we do not 10Tovma3    7:13 | will deny us, even if we do not believe, he remains 10Tovma3    7:24 | the divinely inspired Scriptures, let us keep unsullied the faith of 10Tovma3    7:24 | keep unsullied the faith of ( our) hearts, and the confession of 10Tovma3    7:24 | hearts, and the confession of ( our) lips pure, according to the 10Tovma3    7:24 | the word of faith which we preach.” And David says: “In 10Tovma3    7:24 | same I spoke.” And Paul: “ We believe what we say.” And 10Tovma3    7:24 | And Paul: “We believe what we say.” And again Paul: “If 10Tovma3    7:24 | live), since with the heart we believe in righteousness and with 10Tovma3    7:24 | righteousness and with the mouth we confess salvation 10Tovma3    7:25 | have been brought together, let us not follow the tellers of 10Tovma3    7:25 | the untrodden path. But when we are brought before kings and 10Tovma3    7:25 | for testimony concerning me, let us keep a good confession (of 10Tovma3    7:25 | consider shameful the witness of our Lord.” and David: “I spoke 10Tovma3    7:26 | Here let us halt this discussion and hasten 10Tovma3    7:26 | by stretching out this refutation we fall behind in the composition 10Tovma3    7:26 | the composition that lies before us— the matter of the history 10Tovma3    8:1 | Just as a little above we described the sea dragon and 10Tovma3    8:1 | sake of the plan of our history 10Tovma3    8:7 | because of its tremendous strength, we have drawn the example of 10Tovma3    8:8 | And our account is not without witnesses 10Tovma3    8:8 | is not without witnesses, as we described above in our tale 10Tovma3    8:8 | as we described above in our tale of him with the 10Tovma3    8:11 | worship of the true God, our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus he 10Tovma3    8:14 | eternal and everlasting. As precept we have to hand the Lord’s 10Tovma3    8:20 | cry: “God, look to help us; and Lord, hasten to succour 10Tovma3    8:20 | and Lord, hasten to succour us,” and what follows. “Since we 10Tovma3    8:20 | us,” and what follows. “Since we die for you daily, we 10Tovma3    8:20 | we die for you daily, we have been considered as sheep 10Tovma3    10:4 | to the present day—which we do not have time to 10Tovma3    10:13 | Let us not be more cowardly than 10Tovma3    10:13 | the Tsanars,” he said, “for we have stronger and higher fortresses 10Tovma3    10:13 | to the defiles. Only let us with united hearts take refuge 10Tovma3    10:20 | yourself from here and leave our territory 10Tovma3    10:23 | condemn. Yours is the war, ours the victory; yours the body 10Tovma3    10:24 | Yours is the property, but we are the heirs; yours the 10Tovma3    10:24 | heirs; yours the booty, but we are the plunderers; you are 10Tovma3    10:24 | plunderers; you are the brigand, we the thieves; you the reed 10Tovma3    10:24 | the thieves; you the reed, we the consuming fire; you the 10Tovma3    10:24 | consuming fire; you the straw, we the boisterous winds; you the 10Tovma3    10:24 | boisterous winds; you the flower, we the withering simoon; you the 10Tovma3    10:24 | simoon; you the flowering field, we the destructive hail; you the 10Tovma3    10:24 | that tears; you the toy, we the children who, grasping your 10Tovma3    10:25 | you the wild animal, we the hunters; you the bird 10Tovma3    10:25 | hunters; you the bird, and we descend from the heights and 10Tovma3    10:25 | you the sea serpent, and we the hook, dragging you up 10Tovma3    10:25 | the stag without horns, and we the eagles (swooping down) on 10Tovma3    10:26 | suffered) in attempting to entrap us, such perils will you run 10Tovma3    11:14 | tyrant: “It is better for us to die for Christ’s name 10Tovma3    11:14 | By whatever death you wish, we are ready to submit to 10Tovma3    11:14 | father Satan, has taught you. We shall not abandon the love 10Tovma3    11:14 | love of Christ, nor shall we be deprived of eternal life 10Tovma3    11:24 | true religion and faith that we have learned from the prophet 10Tovma3    12:3 | and they shall say: Be our prince, and our nourishment shall 10Tovma3    12:3 | say: Be our prince, and our nourishment shall be with you 10Tovma3    13:2 | genealogy down to the time we are considering. Gurgēn deserves the 10Tovma3    13:5 | are logically minded and understanding. We shall carry forward in abbreviated 10Tovma3    13:5 | carry forward in abbreviated fashion our historical task 10Tovma3    13:7 | men. Therefore, for the moment we have abbreviated them into few 10Tovma3    13:46 | have written (about them) before us and have set down a 10Tovma3    13:57 | all the violent oppressors of our country to blood and destruction 10Tovma3    14:2 | do they (say). As for us, we shall abbreviate the whole 10Tovma3    14:2 | they (say). As for us, we shall abbreviate the whole revolution 10Tovma3    14:14 | shall revolt against Ashot. Together we shall divide the land and 10Tovma3    14:31 | against the Christians—like Senek’erim our ancestor against Jerusalem and the 10Tovma3    15:2 | had been thrown. They reached our land, bringing the good news 10Tovma3    15:7 | records which were kept before us indicate, and which it seems 10Tovma3    15:20 | forgetful of the retribution for our sins inflicted by the Lord 10Tovma3    15:21 | We have indicated the details (of 10Tovma3    16:2 | Arabia; among them was included our valiant Ashot with his heroic 10Tovma3    16:5 | There our brave Ashot, feigning illness, reclined 10Tovma3    16:8 | around his own camp where our Ashot seemed to be ill 10Tovma3    16:9 | Armenians; let them now recognise us and our prowess 10Tovma3    16:9 | them now recognise us and our prowess 10Tovma3    18:1 | Ptolemy and Alexander, or of our Artashēs son of Sanatruk, that 10Tovma3    18:12 | So our princes acquired glorious and splendid 10Tovma3    18:14 | to the worship of Christ our God, yet they did not 10Tovma3    19:12 | battle with me. Then together we shall lay hands on them 10Tovma3    20:5 | truly is not clear to us 10Tovma3    20:37 | true is not clear to us; and I reckoned it better 10Tovma3    20:52 | They note: “Let us see the outcome of this 10Tovma3    20:54 | hurried out, saying: “Come, let us meet in friendly peace.” And 10Tovma3    22:8 | parts, giving to Ashot, as we said above, the rank of 10Tovma3    22:13 | inflict the Persian fate on us and our land, they agreed 10Tovma3    22:13 | Persian fate on us and our land, they agreed to submit 10Tovma3    22:20 | deceit between the two (of us).” The gentle prince Ashot, mild 10Tovma3    23:1 | As we briefly mentioned above concerning Ahmat’ 10Tovma3    23:7 | warriors of Vaspurakan, whose names we recorded above, attacked like heroes 10Tovma3    25:3 | the murder of Apumruan that we described above 10Tovma3    25:6 | the city of Nakhchavan. Here our three valiant brothers arrived with 10Tovma3    26:11 | So our country took breath, and everyone 10Tovma3    26:15 | of apostolic honour promised by our Saviour 10Tovma3    26:16 | of the mild praised by our Lord Jesus Christ 10Tovma3    27:10 | much greater a punishment will we think that man worthy who 10Tovma3    29:24 | own—the story of which we recorded above—and especially the 10Tovma3    29:28 | also placed the cross which we mentioned above, through which miraculous 10Tovma3    29:39 | Lord and the house of our God, following the prophet’s exhortation 10Tovma3    29:41 | This is the cross which we mentioned above when we described 10Tovma3    29:41 | which we mentioned above when we described its appearance [259] years previously 10Tovma3    29:49 | and learned people, and let us leave aside the opinions of 10Tovma3    29:53 | ark, and salvation prevailed for us over the insolence of the 10Tovma3    29:59 | raids of brigands. This regulation we find among the holy angels 10Tovma3    29:61 | the warriors of Vaspurakan, as we described. As soon as the 10Tovma3    29:64 | the son of Sherep’, whom we mentioned above elsewhere in the 10Tovma3    29:65 | of the cross of Christ our God 10Tovma3    29:78 | their cruel spite to attack our land in order to destroy 10Tovma4    1:7 | mortal the immortal nature that we had in paradise—likewise here 10Tovma4    1:9 | said, “and swoop down on us like an eagle on flocks 10Tovma4    1:9 | flocks of birds, and make us fodder for the sword 10Tovma4    1:15 | But as we said above, some traitors from 10Tovma4    1:23 | the Muslim nor any of our soldiers dared cross it, admitting 10Tovma4    1:29 | We cannot leave the memory of 10Tovma4    1:32 | today been taken away from our head. Heaven above and earth 10Tovma4    1:32 | would not be contorted, among us who have deserved to see 10Tovma4    1:40 | anywhere; no war has engulfed ( us) from anywhere. Who dared to 10Tovma4    1:46 | We were informed by those who 10Tovma4    1:48 | Where,” they said, “have we lost the honourable pearl, the 10Tovma4    1:48 | glorious name for himself and us 10Tovma4    1:49 | golden decorated cushions and delighted us with the cup of hospitality 10Tovma4    1:50 | generous hand that continuously embellished us with splendid adornment? Woe and 10Tovma4    1:50 | adornment? Woe and alas for our life 10Tovma4    1:51 | did that day not befall us in a great battle among 10Tovma4    1:51 | spears of an army, (when) we might have lost our lives 10Tovma4    1:51 | when) we might have lost our lives 10Tovma4    1:53 | saying anything about them, and we shall hasten on with the 10Tovma4    1:53 | history. Perhaps God will grant us success in bringing to a 10Tovma4    3:8 | of the Evil One, as we mentioned above. So I do 10Tovma4    3:14 | praise but for history, let us hasten back to the course 10Tovma4    3:14 | back to the course of our narrative 10Tovma4    3:17 | like the first time which we described above 10Tovma4    3:19 | saying): “Many trials have befallen us” because the prince did not 10Tovma4    3:30 | of Vasak the apostate, whom we mentioned above, gave support to 10Tovma4    3:34 | in the two towns, as we described above 10Tovma4    3:37 | Biwzand has accurately expounded to us. Here two of his sons 10Tovma4    4:3 | in himself these parallels that we mentioned above in accordance with 10Tovma4    4:3 | mentioned above in accordance with our descriptive style, in the fashion 10Tovma4    4:8 | saying: “Do not completely deprive us of our inheritance 10Tovma4    4:8 | not completely deprive us of our inheritance 10Tovma4    4:21 | numberless battles they had attacked our pious former princes; and still 10Tovma4    4:33 | force of Muslims crossed into our land tonight in infinite numbers 10Tovma4    4:37 | had happened, they note: “Since we have suffered this (at the 10Tovma4    4:37 | of a few, how shall we be able to resist the 10Tovma4    4:55 | armed host. He inflicted on us many calamities, which another great 10Tovma4    4:55 | intelligent, has written down before us and entrusted to royal archives 10Tovma4    4:67 | even greater than the one we described above. They requested the 10Tovma4    4:72 | sacrificed in the flesh for our sake, a pleasing gift was 10Tovma4    4:75 | a river or sea, which our speech is really insufficient to 10Tovma4    4:75 | no occasion before him did our land encounter such bounty, and 10Tovma4    6:4 | any deed worthy of record, we did not set out their 10Tovma4    7:11 | Such in brief is what we have to say about the 10Tovma4    8:1 | Now although we have happily undertaken (these) pleasing 10Tovma4    8:1 | happily undertaken (these) pleasing histories, we passed over many stories, especially 10Tovma4    8:1 | of interminable prolixity—profitless for us to relate and useless for 10Tovma4    8:2 | So setting these outside our plans, we shall proceed to 10Tovma4    8:2 | setting these outside our plans, we shall proceed to review the 10Tovma4    8:2 | and constructions were raised in our land by Hayk the Archer 10Tovma4    8:2 | others with unerring indications. These we have visited in person and 10Tovma4    8:2 | in person and seen with our own eyes, travelling to distant 10Tovma4    8:2 | the East. Travelling on foot, we have seen the works of 10Tovma4    8:2 | works of valiant men and ( our) ancestors. But our mind and 10Tovma4    8:2 | men and (our) ancestors. But our mind and sight were struck 10Tovma4    8:3 | Hyrcanus, and settled them in our land. But all these lived 10Tovma4    8:16 | superintendents of the city, told us that two hundred thousand litra 10Tovma4    8:19 | But we have offered this suitable and 10Tovma4    8:19 | convenient account, so far as we could, in order to fulfil 10Tovma4    9:0 | were brought from distant lands. We shall give a faithful picture 10Tovma4    9:1 | and stupendous city of Ałt’amar, our Saviour Jesus exalted the arms 10Tovma4    9:6 | the architect was Manuēl, whom we mentioned above, a man full 10Tovma4    9:6 | construction. To the monk whom we mentioned above he entrusted the 10Tovma4    9:6 | Abraham and David down to our Lord Jesus Christ. He arranged 10Tovma4    9:9 | apse the crossnimbed image of our Saviour, who for our sake 10Tovma4    9:9 | of our Saviour, who for our sake put on flesh and 10Tovma4    9:10 | be words (of blame) in our history, yet the king will 10Tovma4    9:12 | splendid vessels, which wonderfully show us the second Jerusalem and also 10Tovma4    9:16 | So we have said what concerns the 10Tovma4    10:1 | We described above the anarchy in 10Tovma4    12:8 | save the king and hear us.” In truth God’s anointed, superior 10Tovma4    13:1 | race of Hagar ruled over us; making perpetual raids for booty 10Tovma4    13:3 | So our sins and those of our 10Tovma4    13:3 | our sins and those of our fathers reigned over us, and 10Tovma4    13:3 | of our fathers reigned over us, and the Lord delivered us 10Tovma4    13:3 | us, and the Lord delivered us and the surviving (Armenians) into 10Tovma4    13:5 | This nation God and our sins gave as ruler of 10Tovma4    13:5 | companions of Anania: “You delivered us into the hands of the 10Tovma4    13:11 | Now because of our sins the race of Elimats’ik’ 10Tovma4    13:11 | the race of Elimats’ik’ attacked us, as we said above, and 10Tovma4    13:11 | of Elimats’ik’ attacked us, as we said above, and continually vexed 10Tovma4    13:27 | divine treasures: the throne of our Holy Illuminator Gregory the Parthian 10Tovma4    13:30 | of the same name as our Illuminator. These shone out in 10Tovma4    13:36 | Our flight took place in winter 10Tovma4    13:40 | of the divine treasures that we mentioned above, which were kept 10Tovma4    13:42 | Paul, the citizen of heaven: “ We do not have combat with 10Tovma4    13:52 | him on the throne of our Holy Illuminator Saint Gregory, and 10Tovma4    13:53 | which expressed the model of our holy patriarch, the divinely honoured 10Tovma4    13:53 | sat on the throne of our Holy Illuminator 10Tovma4    13:72 | be a glorious boast for us, having given him grace like 10Tovma4    13:85 | holder of the throne of our Holy Illuminator. At great effort 10Tovma4    13:87 | Holy Cross of Ałt’amar, which we mentioned above. Furthermore, falling on 10Tovma4    13:89 | his parents. To Christ and our God glory forever. Amen 10Tovma4    13:90 | taken place, as is written, we must inform you, Oh dear 10Tovma4    13:95 | great joy and rejoicing for our see of the Holy Cross 10Tovma4    13:96 | Christ God have mercy on us. Amen 10Tovma4    13:100 | his world, who shall occupy our patriarchal throne if not one 10Tovma4    13:106 | After this had happened we had no king or prince 10Tovma4    13:106 | and rescuer who could free us from foreigners and wicked enemies 10Tovma4    13:109 | is not right to abandon our holy places, our home and 10Tovma4    13:109 | to abandon our holy places, our home and ancestral inheritance, lest 10Tovma4    13:111 | each other: “Dear brothers, let us be bravely united through the 10Tovma4    13:111 | of the Holy Spirit, lest our ancestral inheritance fall into the 10Tovma4    13:113 | Also we request, beg, entreat and supplicate 10Tovma4    13:113 | Holy Spirit, the true God— we the unworthy monks and priests 10Tovma4    13:113 | Trinity. In faith and hope we request from your liberal benevolence 10Tovma4    13:113 | again strengthen the throne of our patriarchate as before, and free 10Tovma4    13:114 | and that you make our patriarch Lord Dawit’ shine out 10Tovma4    13:114 | posterity. Amen. And to Christ our God, glory, praise, and worship 11Asogh1    1:1 | outpouring of divine grace on us from the highest Being for 11Asogh1    1:2 | It (the highest Being) honored us not only with reason, (decorating 11Asogh1    1:2 | not only with reason, (decorating) us among rational (beings), but also 11Asogh1    1:2 | rational (beings), but also adorned our appearance with its ugly image 11Asogh1    1:2 | his divine image (so that we) with our tireless thought (could 11Asogh1    1:2 | image (so that we) with our tireless thought (could) reach (on 11Asogh1    1:3 | triple light of the Trinity, we will unswervingly and unmistakably tell 11Asogh1    1:3 | this light) in the past, we will not follow the false 11Asogh1    1:4 | in the present, we will not encounter the false 11Asogh1    1:4 | faith of heretics and therefore we will not go astray (from 11Asogh1    1:4 | the path) of good deeds, we will not go astray at 11Asogh1    1:5 | no, having before our eyes the light of the 11Asogh1    1:5 | and the light of science, we learn that everything that exists 11Asogh1    1:6 | of knowledge in the present, we come to know the Way 11Asogh1    1:6 | Christ Himself; (The path), leading us to the Father and moving 11Asogh1    1:6 | to the Father and moving us away from pagan unbelief and 11Asogh1    1:7 | of hope for the future, we see (as it were) before 11Asogh1    1:7 | see (as it were) before our eyes the day of the 11Asogh1    1:8 | is the mystery by which we Christians depict the past and 11Asogh1    2:2 | wherefore we have divided our History into 11Asogh1    2:2 | wherefore we have divided our History into three parts 11Asogh1    2:3 | advent of the Savior of our Lord God in the summer 11Asogh1    2:5 | the captivity of the Israelites, our crowned Haykazeans begged (for them 11Asogh1    2:5 | the time of Vagharshak Arshakuni, our pagan kings conferred (on the 11Asogh1    3:11 | his father, peace reigned in our country (everywhere), and everyone, according 11Asogh1    3:21 | But when we, having grown fat, spread out 11Asogh1    3:21 | turned out to be disobedient, we forgot our beloved God, the 11Asogh1    3:21 | to be disobedient, we forgot our beloved God, the creator of 11Asogh1    3:22 | of God’s good deeds to us, we ceased to heed the 11Asogh1    3:22 | God’s good deeds to us, we ceased to heed the voice 11Asogh1    3:22 | then disasters and sorrows befell us, and the Lord did not 11Asogh1    3:22 | the Lord did not heed our prayers, but handed over our 11Asogh1    3:22 | our prayers, but handed over our country to the army of 11Asogh1    5:6 | confessed the true faith, saying: “ We are Christians: we will not 11Asogh1    5:6 | faith, saying: “We are Christians: we will not exchange the light 11Asogh1    5:6 | which is nothing and which we consider to be nothing 11Asogh1    5:9 | offer a reasonable sacrifice to our hope - Christ, who died for 11Asogh1    5:9 | hope - Christ, who died for us and promised us life.” Thus 11Asogh1    5:9 | died for us and promised us life.” Thus, first he stepped 11Asogh1    5:14 | the tomb and solitude of our holy Illuminator, on a mountain 11Asogh1    7:4 | with the intention of devastating our entire country 11Asogh1    7:16 | the honest cross. Even now we see with our own eyes 11Asogh1    7:16 | Even now we see with our own eyes how many sick 11Asogh1    7:25 | good, being the guardian of our faith. He lived in our 11Asogh1    7:25 | our faith. He lived in our time 11Asogh1    7:37 | human passions and death for us, but that he died a 11Asogh1    7:38 | We confess God united in the 11Asogh1    7:38 | suffer and was crucified for us. Thus, our baptism in the 11Asogh1    7:38 | was crucified for us. Thus, our baptism in the name of 11Asogh1    7:38 | man, is performed, so that we will not be subjected to 11Asogh1    7:39 | summoned Alaxutetn, the persecutor of our faith 11Asogh1    13:5 | harm, (saying): “If you give us your weapons, you can go 11Asogh1    14:1 | Basil was enthroned in [425=976], as we said above, Bardas, nicknamed Skleros 11Asogh1    17:4 | to robbery and treachery in our land, which the inhabitants of 11Asogh1    20:6 | in the eastern country, which we will tell about in its 11Asogh1    20:8 | written by the aforementioned vardapets. We consider it not superfluous to 11Asogh1    21:5 | against the Greek emperor, which we will tell about in due 11Asogh1    23:2 | Melitene; for Ibn Xosrov, whom we spoke about before, at his 11Asogh1    24:2 | deceitful offer: “come (to me), we will make peace and divide 11Asogh1    39:4 | The Iberians answered: “ We look at the Armenian Church 11Asogh1    42:2 | surpassed all sovereigns living in our time 11Asogh1    42:5 | Cilicia, hastened to arrive in our country 11Asogh1    42:6 | them by the metropolitan, as we said above 11Asogh1    44:1 | by brother) of Gagik, whom we mentioned above, having become proud 11Asogh1    45:0 | ancestry of Artsrunik, who in our time began to reign in 11Asogh1    45:2 | Smbat the Great, whom, as we said above, was erected on 11Asogh1    46:1 | the incarnation or incarnation of our Lord was coming to an 11Asogh1    48:1 | remaining incomprehensible and incomprehensible to us rational ones 11Asogh1    48:3 | We also found that now [6282] years 11Asogh1    48:3 | have passed from Adam to our time, and [1004] years from the 11Asogh1    48:4 | from Emperor Philip [756], and from our Armenian chronology [453] years, which is 11Asogh1    48:6 | contempt, gratitude and censure from our hard-hearted and rebellious people 12Last1    1:0 | Days of torments came to us, Unbelievable troubles found us, Because 12Last1    1:0 | to us, Unbelievable troubles found us, Because the measure of our 12Last1    1:0 | us, Because the measure of our sins, having filled up, Overflowed 12Last1    1:0 | having filled up, Overflowed, and our cry arose before God 12Last1    1:3 | this reason, foreign peoples Alienated us from our habitation and turned 12Last1    1:3 | foreign peoples Alienated us from our habitation and turned our glory 12Last1    1:3 | from our habitation and turned our glory to ruin 12Last1    1:4 | No breath remained within us and we became lost through 12Last1    1:4 | breath remained within us and we became lost through our despair 12Last1    1:4 | and we became lost through our despair. Death grew strong and 12Last1    1:4 | Death grew strong and swallowed ( us). Nor did the cemetaries wish 12Last1    1:5 | Everyone attacked us, and in our dying days 12Last1    1:5 | Everyone attacked us, and in our dying days there was no 12Last1    1:5 | be healed) from the agonies we had already borne 12Last1    1:8 | dispersed like erratic stars. In our day, wars sprung up on 12Last1    1:10 | Now it is time for us to turn to the history 12Last1    1:10 | from this point so that our words are intelligible to you 12Last1    1:26 | after them, a desolate wilderness” [Joel II. 3]. We have said enough about this 12Last1    1:26 | said enough about this. Let us return to the course of 12Last1    1:26 | return to the course of our narration 12Last1    1:27 | In the year [464] of our era [1015] Bagarat, (king) of Abkhazia 12Last1    2:2 | him on the throne of our Illuminator. (Like Gregory the Illuminator 12Last1    2:5 | Those who look upon us with distrust (would be) humiliated 12Last1    2:12 | the crosses, and said insultingly: “ We shall take and make horse 12Last1    2:12 | means of the Byzantines, as we shall relate in (the proper 12Last1    2:16 | In [467] of our era [1018] the emperor (of Byzantium 12Last1    2:28 | or how can I lament our misfortunes in a fitting way 12Last1    2:29 | But we are recording these lengthy events 12Last1    2:29 | of the generations coming (after us), so that when children are 12Last1    2:31 | blessed cathedral and saying insultingly, “ We shall make horse-shoes out 12Last1    2:37 | the waters in accordance with our ( Armenian) canons, while the Byzantine 12Last1    2:38 | God, and the horn of our faith was raised up. Then 12Last1    4:1 | the bishop of Vagharshakert, whom we recalled a little earlier, who 12Last1    4:7 | there will be peace between us.” ( Georgi) consented to this. The 12Last1    5:1 | reign, which was, according to our calendar, the year [475] [1026]. Now when 12Last1    9:1 | among (the Byzantines), as indeed we shall see (in the case 12Last1    9:8 | because of the impiety of our ( Christian) troops which caused the 12Last1    9:11 | evening, in the year [482] of our ( Armenian) era [1033]. Many learned people 12Last1    9:11 | such (disasters) did occur in our day, and this narration is 12Last1    9:11 | a description) of them. With our own eyes we saw the 12Last1    9:11 | them. With our own eyes we saw the blows of divine 12Last1    9:11 | directed against Armenia because of our sins 12Last1    9:13 | Likewise, here in our times, a man similar to 12Last1    9:14 | for the entire country.” Let us leave this matter here as 12Last1    9:16 | against (Michael [V]), they demanded: “Show us our imperial queen who has 12Last1    9:16 | Michael [V]), they demanded: “Show us our imperial queen who has inherited 12Last1    10:0 | was requited by him as we described above 12Last1    10:10 | His eye is alert and our secrets are revealed before His 12Last1    10:12 | was the year [490] according to our ( Armenian) [1041] calendar 12Last1    10:13 | who held the kingship of our land, died 12Last1    10:18 | of those mellifluous songs, now we have (the cries) of owls 12Last1    10:19 | now to move forward in our narration 12Last1    10:22 | many populous awans became uninhabited! We shall speak about all of 12Last1    10:22 | proper) place, but now let us proceed in the order we 12Last1    10:22 | us proceed in the order we commenced 12Last1    10:28 | Prior to this, our land appeared to travelers as 12Last1    10:30 | But let us ascend to the patriarchal throne 12Last1    10:32 | envy, became abodes of clerics. Our land had many such things 12Last1    10:35 | Our everything has turned to lamentation 12Last1    10:35 | everything has turned to lamentation; our robe of gladness has become 12Last1    10:35 | can bear the narration of our misfortunes? What heart of stone 12Last1    10:35 | It is time to mingle our sighs with Jeremiah’s laments: “Zion’s 12Last1    10:36 | because of that sale which we recalled a while earlier. It 12Last1    10:38 | Lord had planted and which our Illuminator tended with fifteen years 12Last1    10:38 | out to him (the perpetrator). We shall now return to our 12Last1    10:38 | We shall now return to our narration 12Last1    10:40 | occupied the patriarchal throne of our Illuminator; and (Gagik) with great 12Last1    10:44 | out) what he will give us in return if I give 12Last1    10:47 | Armenia until the year [493] of our ( Armenian) calendar [1044] when a certain 12Last1    10:47 | patriarch arose and came to our populous, shahastan city filling with 12Last1    11:0 | of Heaven’s wrath opened upon our land. Numerous troops moved forth 12Last1    11:2 | out of fear of them we learn, and they also learn 12Last1    11:3 | poured His wrath down upon us by means of a foreign 12Last1    11:3 | of a foreign people, for we had sinned against Him. But 12Last1    11:3 | ceased visiting His evils upon us, for He is merciful. But 12Last1    11:3 | He was obliged to try us, since He is the righteous 12Last1    11:3 | regretted the evils visited upon us since He is the God 12Last1    11:3 | both (wrath and forgiveness) toward us: first requiting us with a 12Last1    11:3 | forgiveness) toward us: first requiting us with a deserved vengeance, then 12Last1    11:3 | anger would pass so that we would not be completely exterminated 12Last1    11:4 | We became infected with the disease 12Last1    11:5 | after horrible evils had commenced, we stood trembling in shocked, horrified 12Last1    11:5 | march of the impious invaders. We regarded that good deed as 12Last1    11:5 | and were found lacking in our thanks 12Last1    11:6 | However, we should have come to our 12Last1    11:6 | we should have come to our senses from the punishment suffered 12Last1    11:6 | from the punishment suffered by our brothers, and we should have 12Last1    11:6 | suffered by our brothers, and we should have hastened to learn 12Last1    11:7 | We should have calmed God with 12Last1    11:7 | should have calmed God with our uprightness, extinguished the blazing flames 12Last1    11:7 | upraised in anger to pardon us. But we forgot about this 12Last1    11:7 | anger to pardon us. But we forgot about this. Nor did 12Last1    11:7 | knowledge of Him dawn in our hearts. To those who are 12Last1    11:7 | the unjust He is unjust. We were like the wild boars 12Last1    11:8 | It seemed to us that they bore chastisement because 12Last1    11:8 | because they were guilty whereas we were saved because of our 12Last1    11:8 | we were saved because of our justice. But we did not 12Last1    11:8 | because of our justice. But we did not recall the Lord’s 12Last1    11:9 | you will all likewise perish’ “[Luke 13.4-5]. We, however, conducted ourselves according to 12Last1    11:10 | them. The same (fate) befell us 12Last1    11:11 | In the year [497] of our ( Armenian) calendar [1048] which was the 12Last1    11:11 | was the second year of our captivity, once again the dregs 12Last1    11:14 | the prophets were fulfilled on us. The cutting and swarming locusts 12Last1    11:15 | Cross, they speedily came to our land in great excitement 12Last1    11:16 | It is a history for us to lament and mourn. The 12Last1    11:16 | and turn His wrath from us 12Last1    11:17 | more deserving of lamentation is our ( account), when not merely a 12Last1    11:17 | of rage was visited upon us. Wickedly tormented and destroyed, we 12Last1    11:17 | us. Wickedly tormented and destroyed, we became a spectacle for the 12Last1    11:17 | said of the saints, and we have left behind us for 12Last1    11:17 | and we have left behind us for succeeding generations an unhappy 12Last1    11:17 | generations an unhappy history. For ( our) cities were ruined, homes burned 12Last1    11:19 | why did You completely reject ( us), grow wrathful and betray us 12Last1    11:19 | us), grow wrathful and betray us to the hands of impious 12Last1    11:20 | Remember not our sins, and because of our 12Last1    11:20 | our sins, and because of our sins turn not Your face 12Last1    11:20 | turn not Your face from us. Remember, instead, Your mighty hand 12Last1    11:20 | arm by which You ruled us and (that) Your name was 12Last1    11:20 | Your name was placed upon us. But now, lo: You became 12Last1    11:20 | lo: You became angered, and we sinned. Therefore, we roamed in 12Last1    11:20 | angered, and we sinned. Therefore, we roamed in slavery among many 12Last1    11:20 | to everyone. The winds dispersed us and there remained none to 12Last1    11:20 | turned Your face away from us and betrayed us because of 12Last1    11:20 | away from us and betrayed us because of our sins. Remain 12Last1    11:20 | and betrayed us because of our sins. Remain not eternally angry 12Last1    11:20 | Remain not eternally angry at us, and, in time, forget our 12Last1    11:20 | us, and, in time, forget our sins 12Last1    11:22 | But now our noontime became eclipsed and was 12Last1    11:22 | the flock of God. When our day turned into night, they 12Last1    11:36 | Let us return to the theme of 12Last1    12:3 | were like kings of peoples. Our city was like a precious 12Last1    12:4 | the Sceptics and Pyrrhonists entered our churches, the reign of justice 12Last1    12:12 | cause; rather, to illustrate that our chastisement shall be equal to 12Last1    12:12 | severe than the (nature of) our transgressions. Now if they (the 12Last1    12:12 | much worthier of punishment are we, having them as an example 12Last1    12:13 | enter the kingdom of heaven” [Matthew 5.20]. We did not surpass them in 12Last1    12:13 | what pardon or forgiveness shall we have 12Last1    12:14 | and they also came against us; they laid waste Jerusalem, and 12Last1    12:14 | Jerusalem, and they also wasted our cities; pagans entered the holy 12Last1    12:14 | temple; and they also entered our churches, daring to go to 12Last1    12:15 | consumed by fire, yet in our case, instead of that one 12Last1    12:15 | can count how many of our ( priests) perished 12Last1    12:16 | follow David and to create our lament based on his: “Why 12Last1    12:16 | do You hide Yourself in our times of trouble” [Psalms 10.1]? When the 12Last1    12:18 | disasters that were visited upon our city? It was (here) as 12Last1    12:22 | and, to insult and disgrace us, put huge hogs in their 12Last1    12:22 | lords of diocese and church, we found to be more than 12Last1    12:24 | lamenting songs were fulfilled regarding us: “ Their might was betrayed to 12Last1    12:25 | end at this point, for we were unable to record every 12Last1    12:25 | whoever wants to learn of our omission look in the ruins 12Last1    12:25 | omission look in the ruins. We have written the pitiful account 12Last1    12:25 | mountain and of the city. We have written only about what 12Last1    12:25 | have written only about what we saw with our own eyes 12Last1    12:25 | about what we saw with our own eyes, and about the 12Last1    12:25 | and about the wicked things we ourselves experienced. As for the 12Last1    12:25 | would be needed for that. We abbreviated our (account) as much 12Last1    12:25 | needed for that. We abbreviated our ( account) as much as possible 12Last1    13:0 | of Pharaoh give stupid counsel” [Isaiah 19.11]. We encountered the same thing here 12Last1    13:8 | the enemy was delighted, while our ( people) were full of woes 12Last1    14:4 | here until you do as we command,” nonetheless that venerable man 12Last1    14:4 | venerable man, the substitute for our great Illuminator (St. Gregory) was 12Last1    15:1 | festival) of the Revelation of Our Lord, in the evening, when 12Last1    16:0 | occurred was (the year) [503] of our ( Armenian) era [1054]. Now the same 12Last1    16:0 | Sultan (Tughril-Beg, [1055-1063]), advanced (toward us) with countless troops, elephants, carts 12Last1    16:7 | is the Jeremiah to mourn our destruction, prolonging the lament on 12Last1    16:8 | nor deed which can mitigate our ( suffering), except for the Evil 12Last1    16:15 | Oh, the wickedness that befell us! How bitter was the death 12Last1    16:15 | How bitter was the death we died 12Last1    16:23 | about on all sides of us. Suddenly the entire land became 12Last1    16:23 | unbelievable evils (which had befallen us) no one had any hope 12Last1    16:26 | and does not deal with us in accordance with our sins 12Last1    16:26 | with us in accordance with our sins) caused a foolish plan 12Last1    16:31 | God. As they come upon us with their carts and horses 12Last1    16:31 | their carts and horses, let us recall the name of our 12Last1    16:31 | us recall the name of our Lord, be proud of God 12Last1    16:38 | However, one of our presbyters, who was quite old 12Last1    16:41 | and came to battle with our people, for he was a 12Last1    16:46 | have recited this so that we do not become disheartened when 12Last1    16:46 | do not become disheartened when we fall into unbearable difficulties. For 12Last1    16:47 | We see this in the case 12Last1    16:48 | boldly after that tyrant’s insults: “ We need not answer you 12Last1    16:51 | as counsel and teaching for us 12Last1    17:0 | impious one ruins it” [Proverbs 29.4]. Indeed, we saw the validity of this 12Last1    17:0 | the validity of this with our own eyes, in the case 12Last1    17:2 | East destroyed the Christians, as we noted briefly above 12Last1    17:5 | Babylonia. This transpired in [504] of our ( Armenian) [1055] era 12Last1    17:9 | Either surrender those rebels to us or we shall lead your 12Last1    17:9 | those rebels to us or we shall lead your country into 12Last1    17:13 | he continue to thrust before us these accounts of grief and 12Last1    17:14 | very bitter was the period we lived in. Our life was 12Last1    17:14 | the period we lived in. Our life was not a real 12Last1    17:14 | people) that the sins of our fathers will be visited upon 12Last1    17:14 | fathers will be visited upon us, ( I say) woe are we 12Last1    17:14 | us, (I say) woe are we that must pay the debts 12Last1    17:14 | must pay the debts of our fathers. God, speaking to Ezekiel 12Last1    17:16 | this (misfortune) was visited upon us because of our evils, then 12Last1    17:16 | visited upon us because of our evils, then we are more 12Last1    17:16 | because of our evils, then we are more pitiful than all 12Last1    17:16 | world dwells in peace, yet we are slaves and captives, stabbed 12Last1    17:16 | sword, homeless, and pillaged of our belongings 12Last1    17:18 | Our churches resembled a new bride 12Last1    17:18 | from the immaculate womb of our mother Sarah, resembled dove chicks 12Last1    17:19 | the wicked inconsolable replacement which we received. Where are those thrones 12Last1    17:24 | have related was visited upon us because of our wickedness, inform 12Last1    17:24 | visited upon us because of our wickedness, inform Heaven and those 12Last1    17:24 | let them mourn and lament our destruction 12Last1    17:25 | to rejoice. They are all our comrades, and since they share 12Last1    17:25 | and since they share in our joy, they should partake of 12Last1    17:25 | joy, they should partake of our sorrows, as it was in 12Last1    17:25 | when they bowed down with us in our day of humiliation 12Last1    17:25 | bowed down with us in our day of humiliation and tribulation 12Last1    17:25 | because they were created for us 12Last1    17:26 | Yet for us this brings neither aid nor 12Last1    17:26 | no way. Consequently, realizing this, we should work to appease God 12Last1    17:26 | work to appease God with our righteousness. Should that occur, then 12Last1    17:26 | difficult will become easy for us, the rough road will become 12Last1    17:27 | For if God is on our side, who can oppose us 12Last1    17:27 | our side, who can oppose us? Did not God Himself so 12Last1    17:27 | you and cast you down” [Psalms 17.41]. We need only have peace with 12Last1    17:27 | Him with sincere hearts, having ( our) good deeds as a pledge 12Last1    17:27 | and no adversary can grieve us 12Last1    17:28 | are the Lord’s words, which we find in the book of 12Last1    17:29 | not know you.” Rather, let us be among the ranks of 12Last1    17:29 | friends, that He say to us: “ Come, O blessed of My 12Last1    18:2 | that he forgot to attack us. Rather, he continued fighting in 12Last1    18:2 | did those aroused neighbors of ours, or those whose borders marched 12Last1    18:2 | those whose borders marched with ours cease coming and sullying the 12Last1    18:14 | transpired in the year [506] of our ( Armenian) era [1057], which was the 12Last1    18:19 | Presently we see just the opposite: a 12Last1    18:20 | nature had grown used to our species, which filled the land 12Last1    18:21 | Let this matter rest here. We shall return to our sorrowful 12Last1    18:21 | here. We shall return to our sorrowful, unfortunate history 12Last1    18:23 | boldly arose and came against us, ceaselessly raiding, destructively ravaging 12Last1    18:24 | beginning of that year which we recalled above with woe, troops 12Last1    18:24 | by booty alone, but craved our deaths with voracious appetites. It 12Last1    18:28 | misfortunes which were visited upon us 12Last1    18:30 | which had come note: “Show us a path of plunder; do 12Last1    18:30 | of plunder; do not turn us away empty-handed.” Having no 12Last1    18:35 | Oh, the great number of our evil deeds! For this is 12Last1    18:35 | of pure wine to make us drunk, in a foul drunkenness 12Last1    18:36 | and pardon, but would punish us hateful people. Thus, were the 12Last1    18:37 | those dwelling within you. Here we have recorded but a few 12Last1    18:44 | of more bitter, unbelievable tortures? We have not encountered any in 12Last1    18:46 | that bad fortune. So were we betrayed into the hands of 12Last1    18:46 | Nor did the Lord visit us, since we did not heed 12Last1    18:46 | the Lord visit us, since we did not heed Him when 12Last1    18:46 | did not heed Him when we dwelled in peace 12Last1    18:47 | He beseeched us through His prophets, saying: “Come 12Last1    18:48 | We neglected His words. Consequently, He 12Last1    18:48 | Consequently, He did not hear us in our time of need 12Last1    18:48 | did not hear us in our time of need. No, He 12Last1    18:48 | turned His face away from us 12Last1    18:49 | And we were betrayed into the hand 12Last1    18:49 | betrayed into the hand of our enemies, and straitened by those 12Last1    18:49 | straitened by those who hated us. Their arrows drank our blood 12Last1    18:49 | hated us. Their arrows drank our blood, and their swords ate 12Last1    18:49 | swords ate the flesh of our fallen wounded fighting men. In 12Last1    19:0 | Earlier we recalled and described what one 12Last1    21:0 | means of them He judged us, in accordance with His righteous 12Last1    21:1 | in His vivifying evangelism, brought us closer to His heavenly Father 12Last1    21:1 | Him. And He commanded that ( we) resemble him in all matters 12Last1    21:1 | means of good conduct. Yet we rebelled from our sweet and 12Last1    21:1 | conduct. Yet we rebelled from our sweet and good Father and 12Last1    21:2 | Therefore, in the time of our need and of our torments 12Last1    21:2 | of our need and of our torments, He ignored us, and 12Last1    21:2 | of our torments, He ignored us, and we were betrayed into 12Last1    21:2 | torments, He ignored us, and we were betrayed into the hand 12Last1    21:2 | hand of a foreign people. Our enemies grew strong against us 12Last1    21:2 | Our enemies grew strong against us, those who hated us ravished 12Last1    21:2 | against us, those who hated us ravished us; we were laid 12Last1    21:2 | those who hated us ravished us; we were laid low, and 12Last1    21:2 | who hated us ravished us; we were laid low, and our 12Last1    21:2 | we were laid low, and our entrails congealed in the ground 12Last1    21:2 | the ground. It was among us as it was in the 12Last1    21:3 | Their water turned to blood. Our rivers and cisterns and virtually 12Last1    21:3 | the country was dyed with our blood. Tumors formed all over 12Last1    21:3 | formed all over their bodies. Our bodies were stabbed by swords 12Last1    21:3 | but volleys of arrows were our fate, and they wounded more 12Last1    21:4 | these same pests) crept into our homes and churches—it terrifies 12Last1    21:5 | and all. The only thing we lacked was the Sea, yet 12Last1    21:5 | you will also find that we too had our Sea. For 12Last1    21:5 | find that we too had our Sea. For are there deeper 12Last1    21:5 | ends of the earth, whither our captives were dragged, wherein they 12Last1    21:6 | totally stripped and pillaged whatever we had, even though we had 12Last1    21:6 | whatever we had, even though we had done nothing to them 12Last1    21:7 | is blessed for eternity. Although we are devoid of good deeds 12Last1    21:7 | devoid of good deeds, nonetheless we have the right belief and 12Last1    21:7 | tongue of confession. Why should we be punished the way they 12Last1    21:7 | How much more pitiful are we, and (how much more) deserving 12Last1    21:8 | why did You completely reject us, and cause us to be 12Last1    21:8 | completely reject us, and cause us to be trampled underfoot by 12Last1    21:8 | underfoot by pagans and make us the object of ridicule and 12Last1    21:8 | of ridicule and derision by our enemies? Arise and awaken Your 12Last1    21:8 | Your might, come and save us, and requite our neighbors sevenfold 12Last1    21:8 | and save us, and requite our neighbors sevenfold 12Last1    21:9 | for the city about which we are now speaking, Melitene (Malatya 12Last1    21:11 | a day untainted. Such is our nature: when growing poor, we 12Last1    21:11 | our nature: when growing poor, we grumble and blame God, while 12Last1    21:11 | God, while when growing rich, we become insolent, and like immortals 12Last1    21:12 | Therefore, constantly changing our condition, we are taught to 12Last1    21:12 | Therefore, constantly changing our condition, we are taught to know our 12Last1    21:12 | we are taught to know our limits and not to ascend 12Last1    21:12 | and not to ascend above our bounds, so that our fall 12Last1    21:12 | above our bounds, so that our fall not be all the 12Last1    21:13 | lowly than the soil? Yet we originated from it and return 12Last1    21:13 | it. However, the creator of our nature does not want anyone 12Last1    21:13 | it is appropriate, He advises us sweetly and with paternal counsel 12Last1    21:13 | with paternal counsel, but when we do not heed His counsel 12Last1    21:13 | heed His counsel, He torments us with His lordly authority 12Last1    21:14 | this discussion be closed here. We now return to our narration 12Last1    21:14 | here. We now return to our narration 12Last1    21:16 | wont, they ravaged the country. We learned about their passage subsequently 12Last1    21:22 | God withdraws His hand from us 12Last1    21:28 | occurred in the year [507] of our ( Armenian) [1058] era 12Last1    22:4 | they wrap themselves up in our pious faith to deceive the 12Last1    22:5 | Indeed our Lord Himself had them in 12Last1    22:6 | language, it is easy for us to beware. But, as the 12Last1    22:7 | They went out from us, but they were not of 12Last1    22:7 | but they were not of us” [I John 2.19], it is not easy to 12Last1    22:8 | such was the case regarding our people. (Bitter water indeed did 12Last1    22:8 | that same sweet fountain which our great leader (St. Gregory) caused 12Last1    22:8 | Gregory) caused to flow for us from the depths of the 12Last1    22:9 | until recently. Truly, (St. Gregory) our Illuminator himself saw in prophetic 12Last1    22:11 | weed from the meadow of our faith, who strained and purified 12Last1    22:12 | We have said enough about this 12Last1    22:12 | to the narration so that our words be supported 12Last1    22:13 | about—began shooting arrows at our faith, arrows whose heads had 12Last1    22:15 | of discord, that Church which our Lord Jesus Christ ransomed with 12Last1    22:25 | man, and He also visited us and saved His people. Through 12Last1    22:29 | of Constantinople. There he slandered our ( Armenian Apostolic) faith and requested 12Last1    22:30 | and dishonored regarding the faith, we also do not accept.” Not 12Last1    23:14 | belonged to them and which we spoke of a little earlier 12Last1    23:15 | unashamedly destroyed the symbol of our salvation, the weapon of the 12Last1    23:15 | nothing except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” [Galatians 6.14]. Since I 12Last1    23:27 | Now the soldiers note: “First we shall ferry across those (bishops 12Last1    23:32 | that the Lord was visiting our ( Armenian) people. In trembling from 12Last1    23:40 | base deeds being too foul, we regarded it as inappropriate to 12Last1    23:42 | But let us, the true Believers in the 12Last1    23:42 | doctrine of confirmed light which we learned from the blessed Fathers 12Last1    23:42 | from the blessed Fathers. Let us, turning away from their atheistic 12Last1    24:3 | Now let us return to our former narration 12Last1    24:3 | Now let us return to our former narration. Let it not 12Last1    24:7 | kingdom. This transpired in [513] of our ( Armenian) [1063/64] era 12Last1    24:8 | of armed troops and entered our land, spreading dread and terror 12Last1    24:17 | or be they princes, as we have seen from what has 12Last1    25:0 | imposed such a task upon us nor demanded it of us 12Last1    25:0 | us nor demanded it of us. Nor are we capable of 12Last1    25:0 | it of us. Nor are we capable of such 12Last1    25:1 | accounts included among such categories, we have omitted, leaving them to 12Last1    25:1 | more eloquent and intelligent than we. Perhaps someone may request it 12Last1    25:1 | this history) not a little, we regard it as necessary to 12Last1    25:14 | did the Lord come to our troops with weapon and shield 12Last1    25:14 | intervene nor was He for us a horn of salvation and 12Last1    25:15 | strength to Himself and betrayed us into the hands of our 12Last1    25:15 | us into the hands of our enemies and to the insults 12Last1    25:15 | and to the insults of our neighbors, and He gave us 12Last1    25:15 | our neighbors, and He gave us as lambs for slaughter. Our 12Last1    25:15 | us as lambs for slaughter. Our bows turned to dust, our 12Last1    25:15 | Our bows turned to dust, our weapons were destroyed, our forces 12Last1    25:15 | dust, our weapons were destroyed, our forces weakened and deserted, for 12Last1    25:15 | the desire for valor from our troops and princes. He took 12Last1    25:15 | to the enemy, because of our improper conduct 12Last1    25:16 | is advising. Rather, He pardons us after a little temptation so 12Last1    25:16 | a little temptation so that we understand our weakness. He kept 12Last1    25:16 | temptation so that we understand our weakness. He kept and pardoned 12Last1    25:19 | flood like gushing water over our lands; to establish their headquarters 12Last1    25:19 | the great city, filling up our entire land with blood and 12Last1    25:22 | your kingdom in peace, and we shall do the same with 12Last1    26:1 | considered it important to remind our beloved brothers, in written form 12Last1    26:1 | just as in the beginning we had briefly occasion to discourse 12Last1    26:5 | and become corrupt. Nor did we hear of any talk of 12Last1    26:7 | eclipse became actualized, because afterwards our enemies attacked us and made 12Last1    26:7 | because afterwards our enemies attacked us and made us wear the 12Last1    26:7 | enemies attacked us and made us wear the dress of mourning 12Last1    26:8 | of an expected refuge left us 12Last1    26:9 | Lord’s wrath was visited upon us one and all. For the 12Last1    26:9 | the blessed sacrament ceased and we became the object of the 12Last1    26:9 | the pagans’ ridicule and insult. We were abused, became lost, and 12Last1    26:9 | leveled to the ground; and we became like dried bones lacking 12Last1    26:9 | life. And the sins of our fathers were visited upon us 12Last1    26:9 | our fathers were visited upon us, as vengeance for the sins 12Last1    26:9 | vengeance for the sins of our ancestors was demanded of us 12Last1    26:9 | our ancestors was demanded of us 12Last1    26:10 | The punishment was visited upon us sevenfold, for the name Christian 12Last1    26:10 | Right and the law quit us, nor was there room for 12Last1    26:10 | nor was there room for our tears and sighs, since their 12Last1    26:10 | of depriving, robbing and killing us 12Last1    26:11 | The clothing necessary to cover our nakedness seemed evil to them 12Last1    26:11 | them. Thus, when they saw us naked and disgraced, yet more 12Last1    26:11 | the many disasters visited upon us we became lean and wasted 12Last1    26:11 | many disasters visited upon us we became lean and wasted and 12Last1    26:11 | country trembling and in horror. Our food gave us no strength 12Last1    26:11 | in horror. Our food gave us no strength, and our drink 12Last1    26:11 | gave us no strength, and our drink was bitter from fear 12Last1    26:11 | and from the threats of our lords. Because they did not 12Last1    26:11 | they did not believe that we possessed a God in heaven 12Last1    26:11 | God in heaven or that our prayers and supplications would reach 12Last1    26:12 | For the Lord willed that we be afflicted by such punishments 12Last1    26:12 | afflicted by such punishments, that we be persecuted and tormented, that 12Last1    26:12 | every age be tortured, that we be exiled and denied His 12Last1    26:12 | of punishment and guilty; that we be dispersed and sent far 12Last1    26:12 | foreign peoples, so that perhaps our rebellious, disobedient and unbridled natures 12Last1    26:12 | natures be restrained, and that we be subjected to His scepter 12Last1    26:14 | Our situation is more difficult and 12Last1    26:14 | serious than anyone else’s, for we are without king, prince, lord 12Last1    26:14 | overseer, spiritually and physically, and we were unable to find a 12Last1    26:14 | single place of refuge. Rather we are weakened and obedient under 12Last1    26:15 | For since we did not serve the Lord 12Last1    26:15 | did not serve the Lord, we must serve foreigners; and since 12Last1    26:15 | must serve foreigners; and since we disdained fear of the Lord 12Last1    26:15 | disdained fear of the Lord we are now daily consumed with 12Last1    26:15 | fear (of the Seljuks). Because we worshipped the Lord lazily we 12Last1    26:15 | we worshipped the Lord lazily we must now revere and serve 12Last1    26:15 | Still, God did not punish us according to our crimes, but 12Last1    26:15 | not punish us according to our crimes, but rather with kindness 12Last1    26:15 | and mercy did He hurl us into the furnace of counsel 12Last1    26:15 | furnace of counsel, to bring us to our senses and make 12Last1    26:15 | counsel, to bring us to our senses and make us useful 12Last1    26:15 | to our senses and make us useful 12Last1    26:16 | For if You put our sins in a balance-scale 12Last1    26:16 | more than the punishments which we have received from You, and 12Last1    26:16 | Your torments are lighter than our guilt. Lord, subject us to 12Last1    26:16 | than our guilt. Lord, subject us to all torments and misfortunes 12Last1    26:16 | torments and misfortunes, but abandon us not; bring down upon us 12Last1    26:16 | us not; bring down upon us all trials and disasters, but 12Last1    26:16 | disasters, but, Lord, only deprive us not of Your love 12Last1    26:17 | in tranquility and ease. To us it is important that Your 12Last1    26:17 | Your blessed name be upon us, that we be considered (worthy 12Last1    26:17 | name be upon us, that we be considered (worthy of Your 12Last1    26:17 | Your) inheritance, that You accept us as Your people of the 12Last1    26:18 | withdraw not Your hand from us so that we not be 12Last1    26:18 | hand from us so that we not be totally worn out 12Last1    26:18 | this book was visited upon us because of our sins 12Last1    26:18 | visited upon us because of our sins 12Last1    26:19 | Now we consider sufficient what we have 12Last1    26:19 | Now we consider sufficient what we have written about the turbulent 12Last1    26:19 | the turbulent disasters occurring in our day, what we bore from 12Last1    26:19 | occurring in our day, what we bore from the pagans, and 12Last1    26:19 | bore from the pagans, and we have presented this divided up 12Last1    26:19 | and city, in sections. For we encountered not one day or 12Last1    26:19 | Rather the entire time of our days was full of agitation 12Last1    26:20 | the Seljuks) well-disposed toward us despite the fact that they 12Last1    26:20 | that they have lived among us for many years. Resembling the 12Last1    26:20 | For whatever they proposed regarding us was evil. Their words were 12Last1    26:21 | to wear out and exhaust us as an old coat, and 12Last1    26:21 | to efface any memory of us in their minds, so that 12Last1    26:21 | would not look and find us alive. No, our cemeteries were 12Last1    26:21 | and find us alive. No, our cemeteries were to vanish under 12Last1    26:22 | For narrating this account, we should have had the ancient 12Last1    26:22 | what had happened. Accounts of our predecessors have done this 12Last1    26:23 | But as to what we have written in this book 12Last1    26:23 | things that happened, and what we experienced, for we were unable 12Last1    26:23 | and what we experienced, for we were unable to put in 12Last1    26:23 | writing or remember everything. However, we have set all of this 12Last1    26:23 | causes of it all were our sins; and so that looking 12Last1    26:23 | and so that looking upon our writing you would be terrified