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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: and knew not that this matter was a device of the devil; for
verily he is darkness, and feigneth to be light. So he began to
commune with the damsel, and talk with her over the oracles of
the knowledge of God, and said, "Lady, be thou acquainted with
the ever-living God, and perish not in the error of these idols;
but know thy Lord, and the Maker of all this world, and thou
shalt be happy, the bride of the immortal bridegroom." While he
exhorted her with many such-like words, immediately the evil
spirit whispered to the girl that she should spread under his
feet the nets of deceit to drag his blessed soul into the pit of
lust, as he once did to our first parent by means of Eve, thus
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