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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: Therefore on the morrow he wrote a letter to Ioasaph, running
thus:
"King Abenner to his well-beloved son Ioasaph, greeting. Dearest
son, many thoughts have been stealing into my soul, and rule it
with a rod of iron. I see our state vanishing, like as smoke
vanisheth, but thy religion shining brighter than the sun; and I
have come to my senses, and know that the words which thou hast
ever spoken unto me are true, and that a thick cloud of sin and
wickedness did then cover us, so that we were unable to discern
the truth, and recognize the Creator of all. Nay, but we shut
our eyes, and would not behold the light which thou didst
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