NOTE: — 15 —

...[the instructed] may be exhorted unto true conduct—which is the glory of teachers—to walk in the paths of the righteous, to meditate upon the commandments of the Lord, and to guide [others] into the conduct of luminous teaching and into all righteousness. That He may make all men heirs to the kingdom of God, to be co-workers with the life-giving Evangelical counsel, and in no way to transgress the true traditions. For "whosoever shall offend in one point, he is guilty of all the law" (James ii. 10); so that those confirmed in faith and cleansed in conscience from evils may ever be drawn near to the Body and Blood of the Lord, having received Christ in the inner man, Who enlighteneth the saints with the pure and spotless counsels of holy love, [and] with spiritual and corporeal healing from the All-Holy Trinity forever. "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear," saith the Apostle, "then shall ye also appear with Him in glory" (Colos. iii. 4). So that it may be granted unto us all, who have put on Christ, confirmed in faith and virtue-loving conduct, to be pleasing unto God, to draw near unto the unapproachable Light, and to shine forth in the glory of Christ, our Hope, at the universal Tribunal in the resurrection from the dead; and we shall glorify the Almighty Dominion forever with the angels unto the ages of ages. Amen. (*Yakhakhapatum*, Discourse xvii). Now, having taken exceeding heed unto the words of the Old and New Testaments and unto the spirit-filled writings of the Holy Fathers, let us proceed now to re-examine the snare-concealing words of that writing, wherein the author, thus mincing with hypocrisies, prattles: "Now our Orthodox religion differeth in this [wise] from [that of] the Ējmiatsnakan Armenians." O what grievous slander and deceitful undertaking! O words worthy of contempt and reproach! Here the indisputable sentence of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is manifestly predicated of the writer of the aforementioned slander, that: "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned" (Matt. xii. 35–37). What shall we name the author of the above-written differ...