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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: athirst for the mighty and living God"; or, as the soul that is
sick of love crieth in the Song of Songs, "Thou hast ravished us,
ravished us with the desire of thee"; and, "Let me see thy
countenance, and let me hear thy voice, for thy voice is a sweet
voice, and thy countenance is comely."
It was the desire for this unspeakable comeliness of Christ that
fired the hearts of the Apostolic Quire and of the Martyr folk to
despise the things that are seen, and all this temporal life, and
the rather to choose ten thousand forms of death and torture,
being enamoured of his heavenly beauty, and bearing in mind the
charm that the divine Word used for to win our love. Such was
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