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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: renew for myself that which is waxen old, nor raise that which
hath been destroyed. For never was man able to accomplish aught
of these things, neither king, nor wise man, nor rich man, nor
ruler, nor any other that pursueth the tasks of men. For he
saith, `There is no king, or mighty man, that had any other
beginning of birth. For all men have one entrance into life, and
the like going out.'
"So from mine own nature, I am led by the hand to the knowledge
of the mighty working of the Creator; and at the same time I
think upon the well-ordered structure and preservation of the
whole creation, how that in itself it is subject everywhere to
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