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Fratricide was first created by Satan's envy of Adam's children.

— Gregory the Illuminator

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Cain taught his descendants to do all that God hated: pride, vainglory in speech, self-flattery, slander, false accusation, and even the oath of inverting covenants.

At the monastery of Khor Virap [...] Saint Gregory remained a prisoner 13 years before converting King Tiridater III, who would make Armenia the first Christian state in the world.

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