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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: small kindnesses that we have shown him and repayeth the whole
with interest."
XIV.
Again said Ioasaph, "The Lord God prosper thee, O thou Wisest of
men! For thou hast gladdened my soul with thine apt and
excellent sayings. Wherefore sketch me yet another picture of
the vanity of the world, and how a man may pass through it in
peace and safety."
Barlaam took up his parable and said, "Hear then a similitude of
this matter too. I once heard tell of a great city whose
citizens had, from old time, the custom of taking some foreigner
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