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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: counsellors, and brought to light the thoughts of his heart. As
they confirmed his words (for the day-spring from on high had
visited them, the Saviour who had heard the prayer of his servant
Ioasaph), it pleased the king to signify the same to his son.
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
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