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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: and pained themselves to labour, that they might not lose eternal
glory. They became passionless as the Angels, and now they weave
the dance in their fellowship, whose lives also they imitated.
Blessed, yea, thrice blessed are they, because with sure
spiritual vision they discerned the vanity of this present world
and the uncertainty and inconstancy of mortal fortune, and cast
it aside, and laid up for themselves everlasting blessings, and
laid hold of that life which never faileth, nor is broken by
death.
"These then are the marvellous holy men whose examples we, that
are poor and vile, strive to imitate, but cannot attain to the
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