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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: after our departure hence? These and kindred questions I have
been longing to resolve."
Thus questioned he; and Barlaam answered thus: "The good hope,
whereof I spake, is that of the kingdom of Heaven. But that
kingdom is far beyond the utterance of mortal tongue; for the
Scripture saith, `Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him.' But when we have shuffled off this
gross flesh, and attained to that blessedness, then will that
Master, which hath granted to us not to fail of this hope, teach
and make known unto us the glory of those good things, whose
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