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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: tempest to an end, failed not to gain the felicity of the world
to come. If then at a convenient season one shall call these
things to thy father's mind also, peradventure he shall
understand and know the dire evil in which he is held, and turn
therefrom and choose the good; since, for the present at least,
'he is blind and cannot see afar off,' having deprived himself of
the true light and being a deserter of his own accord to the
darkness of ungodliness."
Ioasaph said unto him, "The Lord undertake my father's matters,
as he ordereth! For, even as thou sayest, the things that are
impossible with men, are possible with him. But for myself,
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