Jiang's compressed phrase for the medieval atonement logic in which Christ's death satisfies or dissipates God's anger toward humanity.
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divine wrath
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...avenging his own justice and the glory of avenging his own wrath now marvel here at what i show to you sorry the glory..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...avenging his own justice and the glory of avenging his own wrath now marvel here at what i show to you sorry the glory..."
Key Notes
Jiang says the canto's line about avenging wrath refers to the crucifixion of Jesus, which he paraphrases as God sacrificing his only son to dissipate divine anger against humanity.
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"...avenging his own justice and the glory of avenging his own wrath now marvel here at what i show to you sorry the glory..."
"avenging his own wrath refers to the crucifixion of jesus right god is angry at us in order to dissipate his anger he might..."
"...gracious master said to me, those who have died beneath the wrath of God, all these assemble here from every country, and they are..."
"...with your own guilty blood. In the same breath, blazing with wrath, he plants his iron sword held deep into his enemy's heart. Tarnas's..."
"...and steal it, right? Because they don't want to incur the wrath of God."
"...a way for Jews to practice their faith without incurring the wrath of the Roman Empire, without being a threat to the Roman Empire,..."
"...ransack the city and the temple because that would incur the wrath of the god. Okay? So there are these religious taboos that keep..."
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