The General Epistle

For this is a treasury of omniscient wisdom, which holds all truth within itself, and teaches all lovers of truth without deceit. It gives the causes, according to Aristotle, and provides the clearest and most distinct knowledge of Him and His operations. It surpasses all other knowledge, and it is higher than minds that are proud of their [worldly] knowledge. For our faith, according to the Wonderful Paul the Apostle Paul, should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Therefore, the saying of the wise man can be applied to this:

It is a glimpse of eternal light, a spotless mirror of divine influence, and an image of His abundance.

For even the children of our Holy Armenian Church, who long for pure milk, being illuminated by this shadowless light—as if looking into a living mirror—seeing the fountain of wisdom, the Word of God, and tasting its sweetness, cry out regarding these straight-path delights of abundance:

Your lips drop honey, honey and milk are under your tongue.

Third, because in this, every person—according to their status and rank, whether ecclesiastical or secular, whether man or woman, since all are one in Christ Jesus and there is no distinction—by watching as if in a canon of righteous conduct and as a target of the perfection of human living, weighs the work of their own person by the precise canons herein. They recognize the responsibility of their state of office, judged by their own conscience through the testimony of God. And by that [means], having escaped from evil, they hasten to reach a perfect degree in goodness, and remaining firmly in it, showing it to the world, being a fulfillment in deed of the Apostolic canon:

Let each one remain in the calling to which he was called.