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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: and with broken utterance. The prince was seized with
astonishment, and, calling the old man near, desired to know the
meaning of this strange sight. His companions answered, "This
man is now well advanced in years, and his gradual decrease of
strength, with increase of weakness, hath brought him to the
misery that thou seest." "And," said he, "what will be his end?"
They answered, "Naught but death will relieve him." "But," said
he, "is this the appointed doom of all mankind? Or doth it
happen only to some?" They answered, "Unless death come before
hand to remove him, no dweller on earth, but, as life advanceth,
must make trial of this lot." Then the young prince asked in how
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