This paper aims to assess the philosophical attitude of the founder of the Mekhitarist Order, the Abbot Mxit’ar Sebastac’i, through a preliminary study of one of his philosophical commentaries, the Analyses of Albert’s Difficult and Du­­bious Passages, which is the commentary on a renown scholastic text, the Com­­pendium theologicae Veritatis, ascribed to St. Albert the Great. Mxit’ar com­piled his Analyses, in order to provide his novices with a viable introduction to Latin Scholasticism.

In comparison with other works authored by Mxit’ar himself, the Analyses show the Abbot’s genuine way of thinking and of commenting on, as well as his inspired use of Western late ancient and medieval philosophical sources, and name­ly Boethius and Thomas Aquinas. In this paper it is argued that Mxit’ar con­flated Western Late Antique philosophy and Latin Scholasticism with Ar­me­nian phi­losophical thought and Armenian language in a unprecedented way, by adopt­ing more genuinely Armenian options in his linguistic choice and contri­but­ing therefore to purge the so-called Latinized Armenian of Latinisms.