Jiang says Dante is portrayed as specially chosen by God to enter heaven before death with his body still intact, which makes the exam a privileged human test rather than a purely spiritual one.
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Before death
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"it came to you okay okay stop okay all right so this is james and he's going to interrogate dante right and what the..."
"...God, this man receives foretaste of something fallen from your table before death has assigned his time its limit. Direct your mind to his..."
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