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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: fully related these matters, he ended his speech with moral
instruction, and dwelt much upon purity of life, and utterly
condemned the vanity of things present, and proved the utter
misery of such as cleave thereto, and finally made an end with
prayer. And therewith he prayed for the prince, that he might
hold fast the profession of the Catholick Faith without turning
and without wavering, and keep his life blameless and his
conversation pure, and so ending with prayer again withdrew to
his hospice.
But the king's son called Zardan forth, and, to try his
disposition, said unto him, "Thou hast heard what sort of
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