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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm.
And I will bring distress upon the wicked, and they shall walk
like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them
in the day of the Lord's wrath; for the whole land shall be
devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he shall make a
riddance of all them that dwell in the land.' Moreover David,
the king and prophet, crieth thus, `God shall come visibly, even
our God, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled
before him, and a mighty tempest round about him. He shall call
the heaven from above, and the earth, that he may judge his
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