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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: `I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.'
And he saith also by the Prophet, `As I live, saith the Lord, I
have no pleasure in the death of the sinner, and the ungodly, but
that he should turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from
your evil way. And why will ye die, O house of Israel?' For the
wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him in the day that he
turneth from his wickedness, if he do righteousness and walk in
the statutes of life, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
None of his sins which he hath committed shall be remembered
against him. Because he hath done the decree of righteousness,
he shall live thereby. And again he crieth by the mouth of
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