Jiang says a historical Catholic was not supposed to read the Bible privately, so Dante's apparent instruction to read for yourself becomes a challenge to church control over interpretation.
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Catholic prohibition
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"The Bible. You do understand? Okay? What are you not allowed to do at this time, if you're Catholic?"
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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