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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: priests to himself, and delivered Nachor to his son, still having
hopes of him and thinking fit to keep his agreement.
The king's son, therefore, departed unto his own palace, like a
conqueror in the Olympic games, and with him went Nachor. When
alone, the prince called him and said, "Think not that I am
ignorant of thy tale, for I wot, of a surety, that thou art not
saintly Barlaam, but Nachor the astrologer; and I marvel how it
seemed thee good to act this play, and to think that thou couldst
so dull my sight at mid-day, that I should mistake a wolf for a
sheep. But well sung is the proverb, `The heart of a fool will
conceive folly.' So this your device and counsel was stale and
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