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Jiang repeats the lecture's chronology that the broken bridge dates back to Christ's descent into hell, which is why the demons redirect Dante and Virgil.
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Jiang corrects the class by saying Jesus was killed under Tiberius, not Augustus.
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Jiang identifies Tiberius as the third Caesar after Julius and Augustus and says this is the reign during which Jesus is acting as a prophet.
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Jiang distinguishes between medieval Christian Europe around the year 1300 and Jesus at the time of the crucifixion around the year 33, insisting that the classroom question should not collapse those two historical layers.
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Jiang closes by telling the class this is his last school session, that he will continue teaching, and that two weeks from now he will livestream Dante to a global audience.
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Jiang explicitly marks an internal chronology in which Dante had the vision twenty years earlier and then spent the following twenty years trying to remember and reconstruct it through imagination.
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Jiang frames Dante as reaching his understanding after twenty years of meditation and identifies the three same-sized circles as the Holy Trinity, which he calls the essence of Christianity.
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Jiang says the fertility/GDP data shown in the lecture is from 2024, not 2009.
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"shouted to each other and shall i give it to him on the rump and all of them replied yes let him have but..."
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"that can you don't keep on going because the bridge was destroyed by jesus when he came to hell there's another way i'm going..."
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"No, it was not Augustus, it was Tiberius. Oh, was it not Tiberius?"
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"with him who bore it next brutus and cassius howl in hell and grief seized modena perugia you because of it sad cleopatra weeps..."
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"the third caesar is tiberius caesar right the first is julius caesar augustus caesar and the third is tiberius caesar tiberius caesar is important..."
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"Okay. That's a good question. So we're talking about medieval Christian Europe in the year 1300, right? But this is referring to Jesus at..."
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"Why? Because he spent years interviewing these people and to draw out the sparks of light from the universe. And when you do that,..."
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"Okay, all he remembers is being awestruck by it. "'Such am I, for my vision almost fades completely, "'yet it still distills within my..."
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"So we've now moved forward in time, we are now 20 years ahead, okay? We're 20 years ahead, and now he's in his room,..."
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"for it is always what it was before, but through my sight, which as I gaze stronger, that sore appearance, even as I altered,..."
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"Uh, yeah. 2018, January 2018 to today. Yes. Yes."
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