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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: crowns of victory from the right hand of thy master, the Lord of
life."
XIX.
With such like doctrines and saving words did Barlaam instruct
the king's son, and fit him for holy Baptism, charging him to
fast and pray, according to custom, several days: and he ceased
not to resort unto him, teaching him every article of the
Catholick Faith and expounding him the holy Gospel. Moreover he
interpreted the Apostolick exhortations and the sayings of the
Prophets: for, taught of God, Barlaam had alway ready on his lips
the Old and New Scripture; and, being stirred by the Spirit, he
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