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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: asked, `What shall we do?', Peter said unto them, `Repent, and be
baptized every one of you for the remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For to you is the promise,
and to your children, and to all that are afar off even as many
as the Lord our God shall call.' Behold therefore upon thee also
hath he poured forth the riches of his mercy, and hath called
thee that wert afar off from him in heart, and didst serve
others, not Gods, but pernicious devils and dumb and senseless
wooden images. Wherefore before all things approach thou him who
hath called thee, and from him shalt thou receive the true
knowledge of things visible and invisible. But if, after thy
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