The Letters of Nerses the Gracious

Those who were saved from various languages and lands cry out.

And now, he who from childhood to old age has lived according to the will of God, and has not been moved by opponents in any of his stages of life, having now reached honorable old age and being endangered by the ailments of nature, calls forward our unworthiness and compels us to take the succession of his God-received throne. This is something he placed before me not only now, but also in earlier times. And the reason for it not happening sooner was not due to his princely will, but rather my constant refusal due to the laziness of my own soul and my lack of spiritual capacity. And because it was not right to bypass Aaron and have Eleazar step forward while he was still healthy in the flesh.