The Letters of Nerses the Gracious

with the same virtues advancing in divine matters, in the final diminished age of this time, following after them. And regarding the course of following them in completing earthly goods and gathering toward God, those who were born to them as true offspring in body and spirit, and nourished in the embrace of their wisdom, and trained in the instruction of the divine genius of knowledge, specifically Grigorios reference to the author's successor or relative, brother in the flesh and father in the spirit, they established in their ancestral ruling throne. As it is written: "Instead of your fathers, you shall have sons." Not only by reason of familial relation in the flesh, but also previously influenced by the election of the Spirit. By which, in word and deed, he was found to be much more wondrous than many who held the throne of the ancients. In the purity of the soul, being in equal part with fire; in the understanding of the word and in the composition of this, beautifully and in order.

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