How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Translate, or lose it.
Mesrop Mashtots devised the Armenian alphabet around 405 so that scripture could be read in Armenian, and the church keeps a Feast of the Holy Translators — one of the few feasts anywhere dedicated to translators as such. The rule that follows is practical: an Armenian parish builds a school. Language maintenance is treated as a religious obligation and not a cultural hobby.
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