Armenian
Early translation · arm · translation 5th century
The Bible of the Armenian church. Mesrop Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet about 405 so the Scriptures could be translated; the New Testament was made from Syriac and soon revised against Greek manuscripts. For its beauty and care it has been called the queen of the versions.
Contents
The whole New Testament, in over a thousand manuscripts, the earliest from the 9th century.
Cited For
- Matthew 6:13 “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen”
- John 5:3–4 “waiting for the moving of the water …”
- Acts 8:37 “And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God”
Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).
