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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: after many days, perfected him with baptism in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. And Nachor abode
with him, always repentant of his sins, and blessing that God who
never willeth that ally should perish, but receiveth all that
turn again unto him, and lovingly accepteth the penitent.
Now on the morrow when the king heard what had befallen Nachor,
he despaired of the hopes that he once had in him: and, seeing
those wise and foolish orators of his mightily discomfited, he
was at his wits' end. Them he visited with terrible outrage and
dishonour, scourging some severely with whips of oxhide,
besmearing their eyes with soot, and casting them away from his
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