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Antérieurement, Constantin et ses collaborateurs s'étaient appliqués à créer un alphabet nouveau, afin que les vérités à annoncer et à expliquer pussent être écrites dans la langue slave et fussent ainsi pleinement compréhensibles et assimilables par leurs destinataires.
Previously, Constantine and his fellow workers had been engaged in creating a new alphabet, so that the truths to be proclaimed and explained could be written in Old Slavonic and would thus be fully comprehended and grasped by their hearers.
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