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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: him to his own habitation, and, in friendly wise, to shew him the
sights thereof. But Barlaam said that his time was not yet come
to win those habitations, while he was under the burden of the
flesh. "But," said he, "if thou persevere bravely, even as I
charged thee, in a little while thou shalt come hither, and gain
the same habitations, and obtain the same joy and glory, and be
my companion for ever." Hereupon Ioasaph awoke out of sleep, but
his soul was still full of that light and ineffable glory; and
greatly wondering, he raised to his Lord a song of thanksgiving.
And he continued to the end, verily leading on earth the life of
an angel, and after the death of his aged friend using himself to
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