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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: will be always arising, if the idea resembles that which partakes of it?
Quite true.
The theory, then, that other things participate in the ideas by
resemblance, has to be given up, and some other mode of participation
devised?
It would seem so.
Do you see then, Socrates, how great is the difficulty of affirming the
ideas to be absolute?
Yes, indeed.
And, further, let me say that as yet you only understand a small part of
the difficulty which is involved if you make of each thing a single idea,
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