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| How the Armenians and Persians embraced Christianity.
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Chapter VIII.—How the
Armenians and Persians embraced Christianity.
Subsequently the Christian
religion became known to the neighboring tribes and was very greatly
disseminated.1155
| 1155This paragraph is regarded by Valesius as
spurious.
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The Armenians, I have understood, were the first to embrace
Christianity.1156
| 1156The source of this chapter certainly is not Moses
Chorenensis. Tiridates III. reigned a.d.
286–342. At first a persecutor, through Gregory the Illuminator
he became a Christian. Yet parts of Armenia were Christianized much
earlier. Dionysius bishop of Alexandria wrote a letter on Repentance to
the Armenians in the reign of Gallus. Eus. H. E. vi. 46. Cf.
Agathangelas, History of Tiridates the Great, and the preaching of
Gregory the Illuminator.
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It is said that Tiridates, then the sovereign of that nation, became a
Christian by means of a marvelous Divine sign which was wrought in his
own house; and that he issued commands to all the subjects, by a
herald, to adopt the same religion.1157
| 1157Here follows in the Greek text a repetition, word
for word, of the first two lines of this chapter, which seem to be
superfluous, if we do not reject the paragraph above.
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I think that the beginning of the conversion of the Persians1158
| 1158Soz. is wrong in attributing the conversion of
Persia to Armenia.
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was owing to their intercourse with the Osroenians and Armenians; for
it is likely that they would converse with such Divine men and make
experience of their virtue.
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