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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: perfect knowledge; he magnified him and made him his own servant.
Which Abraham in turn handed down to his children his own
righteousness, and taught them to know the true God. Wherefore
also the Lord was pleased to multiply his seed beyond measure,
and called them `a peculiar people,' and brought them forth out
of bondage to the Egyptian nation, and to one Pharaoh a tyrant,
by strange and terrible signs and wonders wrought by the hand of
Moses and Aaron, holy men, honoured with the gift of prophecy; by
whom also he punished the Egyptians in fashion worthy of their
wickedness, and led the Israelites (for thus the people descended
from Abraham were called) through the Red Sea upon dry land, the
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