Vartan
"From this faith, no one can shake
us, neither angels nor men;
neither sword, nor fire, nor water, nor any, nor
all other horrid tortures.
All our goods and possessions are in your hands, our
bodies are
before you; dispose of them, as you will.
If you leave us to our belief, we will,
here on earth, choose
no other master in your place, and in heaven choose
no
other God in place of Jesus Christ, for there is no other God.
But should you
require anything beyond this great testimony,
here we are; our bodies are in
your hands; do with them as
you please. Tortures from you, submission from us;
the sword is yours, the neck ours. We are no better than
our forefathers who,
for the sake of this faith, surrendered
their goods, their possessions, and
their bodies.
Were we even immortal, it would become
us to die for the
love of Christ; for He Himself was immortal and so loved
us
that He took death on Himself that we, by His death,
might be freed from
eternal death. And since He did not spare
His immortality, we, who became mortal
of our own will, will
die for His love willingly, so that He may make us
participants
in His immortality. We shall die as mortals that He accepts our
death as that of immortals.
Do not therefore interrogate us further
concerning all this
because our bond of faith is not with men to be deceived
like
children but with God to whom we are indissolubly bound and
from whom
nothing can detach and separate us, neither now,
nor later, nor forever, nor
forever and ever."
~Letter sent to Hazgert of Persia, from the Armenians,
lead by St. Vartan Mamikonian. 451AD
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