...and I have said that this subject is above all human minds and is great, [proceeding] from the dispensation Dispensation: From the Armenian "տնտեսութիւն" (tntesut'iun), equivalent to the Greek "oikonomia," referring to God's plan for the salvation of humanity. of our Savior and from His divinity. For it is truly fitting for one who is prepared to give a written history of the church to begin from above, from Christ Himself, from whom we received our very name, and from that most divine dispensation—as it has seemed pleasing to many to arrange it.

CHAPTER 1

A section concerning the pre-existence and divinity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And because the conditions or circumstances in Christ are twofold—resembling the head of a human body in His divinity, and compared to the feet in His humanity, by which He put on a nature like ours for the sake of our salvation—therefore, when [starting] from the most principal and essential...

...histories of the times, which were previously established by us, recorded in various sections. But now I have taken it upon myself to apply every effort to complete this history which we have begun.

Second, a section on the principles spoken concerning the pre-existence of the divinity of the Savior and our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Now I shall begin this discourse, as I previously planned and stated, from the sublime and wonderful divinity of Christ, which existed long before this physical world original: "տեսութիւնս մարմնաւորս" (tesut'iunsh marmnavorsh) — literally "corporeal vision," referring to the visible, created universe.. Indeed, it is right for one who is prepared to provide a written history of the accounts of the church to take his start from the account of our Lord. For it was from that divinity that humanity received the appellation of "anointing" This refers to the name "Christ," which means "The Anointed One.". For He is the model of those distinctions which are compared to the body: for His divinity is the head, and compared to the feet is the measure of His humanity, our fellow-nature which He put on for the sake of our salvation. Now when—