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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: and accurately ascertain it? This is beyond human nature, and is
reserved for the immortal gods alone." The young prince ceased
from his questioning, but his heart was grieved at the sight that
he had witnessed, and the form of his visage was changed by the
strangeness of the matter.
Not many days after, as he was again taking his walks abroad, he
happened with an old man, well stricken in years, shrivelled in
countenance, feeble-kneed, bent double, grey-haired, toothless,
and with broken utterance. The prince was seized with
astonishment, and, calling the old man near, desired to know the
meaning of this strange sight. His companions answered, "This
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