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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: him, with wife and children, he saved alive in an Ark, and set
him utterly desolate on earth. But, when the human race again
began to multiply, they forgat God, and ran into worse excess of
wickedness, being in subjection to divers sins and ruined in
strange delusions, and wandering apart into many branches of
error.
"Some deemed that everything moved by mere chance, and taught
that there was no Providence, since there was no master to
govern. Others brought in fate, and committed everything to the
stars at birth. Others worshipped many evil deities subject to
many passions, to the end that they might have them to advocate
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