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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: times no very important one, giving myself no rest until I had
found the clear and most apt solution.
Seeing then that I reckon that not even the least of these
temporal concerns is unworthy of thought until all be fitly
completed for the advantage of all and seeing that all (I ween)
bear me witness that no man under the sun can search out secrets
with more diligence than I, how then could I have considered
divine things, that call for worship and serious consideration,
unworthy of thought, and not rather have devoted all my zeal and
might, all my mind and soul to the investigation thereof, to find
out the right and the true? Aye, and I have laboriously sought
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