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Title: Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gaidzakian, Ohan, 1837-1914. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, B. H. Aznive
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mate translation of theHoly Scriptures into that language. This great work was accomplished by the CatholicosSahak or Isaac in some measure, but more particularly byhis famous associate and fellow-laborer, Mesrop Mashtats. Mesrop was born in the village of Hatsik, in the cantonof Taran. His father, Vartan, taught him a little Greek, andwhen still young he became a pupil of Nierses the Great, underwhom he soon mastered Greek, Syriac and Persian. Whenhe grew up he became for a time one of the court scribes, andfound his knowledge useful in that capacity, for at that timethe letters and edicts of Arm^enian kings were generally pub-lished in all three languages. He devoted himself to all secularstudies, especially Greek, and became much respected bysmall and great, as his friend and biographer, Koriun, informsus. Wearying, however, of secular work, Mesrop soon leftthe court, and retiring to a hermitage with a few disciples, de-voted himself to the practice of austerities and the preaching
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MESROP, AS YOUNG PRIEST, AND THE ARMENIANS. IlQ of the Gospel. He went especially to preach in those partsof the country, such as the canton of Gaghtha, where heathenpractices still prevailed among the people, having never en-tirely ceased. With the favor and assistance of Sabith orSabath, the chief of the district, Mesrop and his disciples wereenabled to work a great reformation there, and the gods aresaid to have fled in a bodily form from them and to have re-tired into Media. Being well acquainted with Syriac, Mesrop himself didnot find it a very difficult task to translate orally to the peoplethe passages of Scripture read to them in church, but the workwas far more difficult for his disciples to perform. During thetime that he spent in itinerating and preaching the Gospel indifferent parts of the country, Mesrop felt more and more howabsolutely necessary it was for the people to have the Scrip-tures translated into and published in their native tongue.But before this could be don

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