History of Armenia

of the same holy man, and how he bore the unspeakable and unmeasured many 3 torments; the greater assistance of Christ, which was shown upon the saint, for the amazement of the still-wandering men; the patience of the endurance of so many years in the pit, according to the foreseeing 5 economy of the One above, who kept the martyr for the work of Armenia; the arrival of the holy virgins from the city of the Romans, and the shedding of their martyrial blood in the city of Vagharshapat, for the watering of the greenness of the dried-up dead men; the coming out of Saint Gregory from the deep pit, and the lifting of the land of Armenia from the darkness of ignorance into the light of the divine 10 kingdom; the exhortation from then on of the teaching of life to the land of Armenia; the waters of the baptism of light, which the Savior Christ, through the great martyr Gregory, by the intercession of the holy virgins, spread in our land; the building of churches, the splendor of the priests, the crowded groups of 15 people at the feasts of the Savior and at the gatherings for the memorials of the saints. All this, and even more than this knowledge, the blessed man of God, the holy Agathangelos, narrated to us in his firm and infallible arrangements.

III. And following this, according to the changing of affairs and times and the 20 occurrence of the multi-crowded ages of the land of Armenia, sometimes of peace and sometimes of severe and unmeasured confusion, of unity towards one another and of tearing apart from one another by discord: there stands the obedience of some, according to divine instruction, to their own native Arshakuni 25 kings, and others serving foreign kings by their own will for the destruction of themselves and the land; those who in unity saw the assistance of God upon themselves and the land, and in breaking and separating [saw] the damage and destruction upon themselves and the land.

Regarding whom the second book is named by some historian, called 30 Faustus of Byzantium; and because of the places arranged by him, some thought there were some words not fitting or appropriate, like the precision of the first one, the one called Agathangelos; having been doubled, [it was] necessary not to teach such an unsuitable arrangement of the Byzantine one. For this Byzantium was a small little city, 35 built beforehand by some man named Byzas, bordering on the 34 proximity of the Thracians; where also, at the arrival with divine-willed command of Saint Constantine over the countless multitude of the Goths in war, and at the edge of the river Lekovb [Lycus] having made his military camp, which also

8 Perhaps "of souls" (spirits)
11 Perhaps "to the land" (N. B.)
11 Perhaps "the waters" (N. B.)
12 TT. by the intercession and holy
15 ZAT. at the gathering
17 TT. arrangements

18 TT. "the saint" is absent
23 H. instruction
26 H. first it seems "in breaking and in separating". Later erased; on top are written "i, nr". TT. in breaking and in separating.
27 N. B. here assumes a missing part.
29 TT. Phostos
29 H. from him
31 TT. truth
32 H. first "Byzantian", later corrected thus.
36 H. the battle-
37 BGT. which divine. Perhaps "where also" (N. B.)