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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: while it causeth him to be the desire of all men; but after a
time it maketh him their hate and abomination. To-day it
gladdeneth him: but to-morrow it weareth him to a shadow with
lamentations and wailings. What is the end thereof, thou shalt
hear. Ruthlessly it bringeth its former lovers to dwell in hell.
Such is ever its mind, such its purposes. It lamenteth not its
departed, nor pitieth the survivor. For after that it hath
cruelly duped and entangled in its meshes the one party, it
immediately transferreth the resources of its ingenuity against
the other, not willing that any should escape its cruel snares,
"These men that have foolishly alienated themselves from a good
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