[74] Ezekiel 27:14.
[75] Milner, “The Turkish Empire,” p. 264. The date possibly is the Armenian which begins 551, and which brings up to A.D. 1748. About this time, two wealthy and influential Armenians, who were especially connected with the government, were beheaded, and four others, who also were holders of high places in the governmental affairs, were executed in 1817.
[76] The Turkish government promulgated a decree, on August 12, 1916, which revokes the Constitution of the Armenian community in Turkey, and creates an ecclesiastical head for the administration of religious matters with his seat in Jerusalem, thus abolishing the office of Armenian patriarch in Constantinople.
[77] Encyclopedia Britannica, the 11th ed., under the article, “The Armenian Language.”
[78] Van Lennep, “The Bible Lands,” p. 367.
[79] Lamartine, “Voyage en Orient,” Vol. II, p. 190.
[80] Greene, “The Armenian Crisis in Turkey,” p. 140.
[81] The Mukhitarists also have translated from the Greek, French and English classics. The writer read Milton’s “Paradise Lost” first in Armenian translated by the fathers of Mukhitar’s order.
[82] See Chapter X, pp. [122] and [123].