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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: When the king's son heard these words, immediately he arose, and
his heart waxed warm, and he began to try to raise Nachor's
courage which was drooping to despair, and to confirm it in the
faith of Christ, saying, "Let no doubt about this, Nachor, find
place in thy mind. For it is written, God is able of these very
stones to raise up children unto Abraham. What meaneth this (as
father Barlaam said) except that men beyond hope, stained with
all manner of wickedness, can be saved, and become servants of
Christ, who, in the exceeding greatness of his love toward
mankind, hath opened the gates of heaven to all that turn,
barring the way of salvation to none, and receiving with
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