THE LIFE OF MASHTOTS

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And from then on continuing with the husbandry of God's work, they began with the evangelical art-to translate, to write, and to teach, especially since they had before their eyes the Lord's lofty commands and God's lofty Commandments which were given to blessed Moses concerning all the things that were-so as to be inscribed in a book to be preserved for the eternity to come, as well as similar commands which had been given to other prophets: "Take thee a great roll, " said He, "and write in it with a scribe's pen. " And elsewhere: "Now go, write it on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book. " But David indicates even more clearly that the divine law shall apply to all nations, by saying, "This shall be written for the generation to come, " and that "The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people, " which in His coming Christ fulfilled by His gracious commandment: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, " and that "this gospel shall be preached in all the world. " Thus our blessed fathers, having obtained permission, rendered their work, through hopeful endeavor, manifest and fruitful as the gospel.

At that time our blessed and wonderful land of Armenia became truly worthy of admiration, where by the hands of two colleagues, suddenly, in an instant, Moses, the law-giver, along with the order of the prophets, energetic Paul with the entire phalanx of the apostles, along with Christ's world-sustaining gospel, became Armenian speaking.

What heart-warming joy existed there thenceforward, and what a pleasant scene for the eyes! For a land which had not known even the name of the regions where all those wonderful divine acts had been performed, soon learned all the things that were, not only those that had transpired in time, but that of the eternity which had preceded, and those that had come later, the beginning and the end and all the divine traditions.