Tag: Dante
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Eyes and Heart
“From this you see that blessedness depends upon the act of vision, not upon the act of love – which is a consequence.” (Dante’s Paradiso, Canto XXVIII, line 109) The eyes and the heart are connected. What you regularly feast your eyes on, the heart learns to love with an iron grip. The eyes, the […]
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Dante on the Atonement
Excerpts from Dante’s Paradiso (Mandelbaum translation), Canto VII: God had to pardon man, or of himself man had to proffer payment for his folly However, man could not pay for his sins. . . . man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself, Thus, there was need for God, through His own ways, to […]
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