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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: overmuch, it rotteth, fruit and all. It is trodden under foot of
men and the residue of the beasts: it is polluted with the blood
of the murdered, it is digged and made a grave for dead bodies.
This being so, Earth can in no wise be a goddess, but only the
work of God for the use of men.
"They that think that Water is a god have gone astray. It also
hath been made for the use of men. It is under their lordship:
it is polluted, and perisheth: it is altered by boiling, by
dyeing, by congealment, or by being brought to the cleansing of
all defilements. Wherefore Water cannot be a god, but only the
work of God.
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