History of Armenia

This third History, in the order of the same books, is composed by my frailty; to which, being compelled by the command of the princes and the word of holy teachers, we gave ourselves to such a necessary work, not daring to oppose. Remembering from the Holy Scriptures the threats to disobedient 5 children and those that write of the forgiveness of the obedient and the willing; to arrange one by one the affairs and deeds, the multi-faceted events of the land of Armenia, the divisions into two kingdoms; and of the lot of the portion of the lawless, [of the] brave men from the family of the Armenian nobles, giving themselves in countless martyrdoms for the vow of the holy 10 church, and for the sake of the heavenly hope, enduring chains and prisons for a long duration of time; and of the priests chosen by God and truly the shepherds, shedding the blood from their own necks for the chosen rational flock of Christ; and of some of the companions of the nobles and of other free men, returning back from the vow of 15 holiness and becoming the kindling for the unquenchable eternal fire, prepared for Satan and his satellites. And to write all this until the day of the beginning of the marzpanate of Armenia by Vahan Mamikonean, Lord and great commander of Armenia and marzpan; and having paused, I shall rest the word of the labors of these histories at that place.

20 II. I have passed through many treatises of the former historians of Armenia; from which, according to long reading, I found the multi-faced transformations of the times and ages of the land of Armenia, from the accurate and infallible arrangement of the First books, which the blessed Agathangelos, a man of eloquence, knowledge, 25 and full of all instruction, narrated fittingly, [showed] to us; truthful in the arrangement of the discourses and well-fitting in the histories of his account. He accurately arranged and imprinted the decline of the Arshakuni kingdom of Artavan and the strengthening of the Stahratsi, Artashir son of Sasan; the vengeance of Khosrov and the doubts of the arrogant Stahra-30tsi; the counsel and promises of the finder of schemes regarding the death of Khosrov; the thought of the craftiness of Anak and the killing of the same Khosrov by him through treacherous deceit; the surrender from then on of the land of Armenia into the hands of a foreign kingdom; the fleeing of the guardians of the sons of Khosrov to foreign lands for survival; 35 the giant-like return once again of Trdat and the keeping of the kingdom of his ancestors with a victorious battle courageously; the approaching of the holy Gregory to him, with a desire for easy worship, the martyrdom...

1 TT. composed
4 Prov. 13:1, Eph. 6:1-3, Col. 3:20 etc.
8 An. of the laws
9 TT. holy
10 2. endured
12 2. shepherds
15 2. of those prepared
18 2. of the pauses
22 2. accurate
26 2. the decline
27 2. thus and later Stahratsvuyn
30 2. the promises
32 BGT. "of the same" is absent
33 ZZT. of the land: Thus according to the new; Byuz.
35 TT. the victorious 2. Mixed

o and o spelling
36 TT. the approaching to him: 2. first "approaching him", later corrected to "approaching to him". Thus according to the discourse.
37 2. first "desire", then corrected thus. Perhaps according to "with a desire for easy worship"