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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: good and just, hath appointed a day of resurrection and
inquisition, that each soul may receive her own body, and that
the wicked, who received his good things here, may there be
punished for his misdeeds, and that the good, who was here
chastised for his misdeeds, may there inherit his bliss. For,
saith the Lord, `They that are in the graves shall hear the voice
of the Son of God, and shall come forth; they that have done good
unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto
the resurrection of doom.' Then also shall thrones be set, and
the Ancient of days and Maker of all things shall sit as Judge,
and there shall be opened books with records of the deeds and
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