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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: issuing forth at dawn, through the heedlessness of her keepers,
to herd with her wild companions. When these removed, to graze
further afield, she followed them. But the rich man's servants,
when they learned thereof, mounted on horseback, and gave chase,
and caught the pet fawn, and brought her home again, and set her
in captivity for the time to come. But of the residue of the
herd, some they killed, and roughly handled others. Even so I
fear that it may happen unto us also if thou follow me; that I
may be deprived of thy fellowship, and bring many ills to my
comrades, and everlasting damnation to thy father. But this is
the will of the Lord concerning time; thou now indeed must be
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