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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: parents bringeth our soul into peril, and separateth her from her
Maker, then we are commanded, at all costs, to cut it out, and,
on no account, to yield to them that would depart us from God,
but to hate and avoid them, even if it be our father that issueth
the abominable command, or our mother, or our king, or the master
of our very life. Wherefore it is impossible for me, out of
devotion to my father, to forfeit God. So, prithee, trouble not
thyself, nor me: but be persuaded, and let us both serve the true
and living God, for the objects of thy present worship are idols,
the works of men's hands, devoid of breath, and deaf, and give
nought but destruction and eternal punishment to their
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