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The reading presents Virgil as the lamp behind Statius: he illuminates the path for another without himself entering the faith that his poetry helps awaken.
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Conversion
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Jiang calls it a paradox that Virgil could make Statius both a poet and a Christian even though Virgil himself is not Christian.
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Jiang poses the unresolved problem that the same poem can convert everyone except its own author.
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Jiang says Statius’s secret conversion only seems to solve the access-to-heaven paradox, because Paradise still contains figures whose cases are harder to explain.
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A student testifies that recurrent nightmares and a felt encounter with hell ended only through Christian verbal invocation, which became the decisive basis for conversion.
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Jiang says Dante later presents people who never converted outwardly but were Christian in heart and therefore could ascend to Purgatory and Paradise.
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The quoted Dante passage makes the conversion of the world to Christianity, despite poverty and weakness at the beginning, the decisive miracle supporting faith.
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The quoted reply says ignorance prevents repentance until the end of life for many souls, which is why Statius treats conversion as illumination rather than mere moral compliance.
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"worried about or to be afraid of you start the prayer that i am going to recite your spirit is like a spirit that..."
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"sadius why are you in the terrace of avarice and sadius replied okay you may think that i was greedy in life but i..."
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"virgil is not a christian in fact he's an anti -christian almost and so sad is he saying like for you i became a..."
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"made you look for a preacher that would have changed your mind yeah that's that's great that's fantastic okay that's exactly what status is..."
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"convert to christianity what's going on here it can move everybody except virgil he's like the"
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"in a terrace of gluttony and the glutton in the terse of gluttony there's a tree with lots of fruit and the sinners just..."
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"Yeah, yeah. There was definitely one. That's what made me actually converted to Christianity. So I always, so after I went to Malaysia when..."
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"She said, did you leave your room and come to my room now? I'm like, I'm so sorry. Maybe I shouldn't have read the..."
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"Later on, we will discover people who are actually like that, okay? They did not convert to Christianity in their lifetime, but in their..."
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"And I, the proof revealing truth to me relies on acts that happened. For such miracles, nature can heat, no iron beat no anvil...."
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"How many are to rise again with heads cropped close, whom ignorance prevents from reaching repentance in and at the end of life? And..."
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"Yeah, meaning you're born into faith, right? Oh, okay."
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