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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: spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and
laid bare unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
"These things also were proclaimed with wondrous clearness by the
prophets of old time, illumined by the grace of the Spirit. For
Esay saith, `I know their works and their thoughts,' and will
repay them. `Behold, I come to gather all nations and all
tongues; and they shall come and see my glory. And the heaven
shall be new, and the earth, which I make before me. And all
flesh shall come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they
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