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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: assured, I shall depart thy sonship, and serve my God with a
clear conscience."
Now when the king heard all these words, he was furiously
enraged: and, seized with ungovernable anger, he cried out
wrathfully against him, and gnashed his teeth fiercely, like any
madman. "And who," said he, "is blameable for all my misfortunes
but myself, who have dealt with thee so kindly, and cared for
thee as no father before? Hence the perversity and contrariness
of thy mind, gathering strength by the licence that I gave thee,
hath made thy madness to fall upon mine own pate. Rightly
prophesied the astrologers in thy nativity that thou shouldest
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