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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: useless images. And I am moved to wonder, O king, how they, who
are called philosophers among them, fail to understand that even
the very elements are corruptible. But if the elements are
corruptible and subject to necessity, how are they gods? And if
the elements are not gods, how are the images, created to their
honour, gods?
"Come we then, O king, to the elements themselves, that we may
prove concerning them, that they are not gods, but corruptible
and changeable things, brought out of non-existence by the
command of him who is God indeed, who is incorruptible, and
unchangeable, and invisible, but yet himself seeth all things,
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