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Jiang presents Dante's forgetfulness after returning home as evidence that God's method with Dante cannot be explained by a simple desire for flawless memory or verbatim transmission.
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Forgetfulness
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Why, though? I'm trying to figure this out, okay? I'm trying to figure out. Okay, like, in Ezekiel, you can just stuff the message..."
Key Notes
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Jiang restates the pedagogical puzzle as a question about why God would rely on a messenger who forgets most of what he was taught.
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"Why, though? I'm trying to figure this out, okay? I'm trying to figure out. Okay, like, in Ezekiel, you can just stuff the message..."
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"He forgets a bunch of things. He forgets everything! Not everything."
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"Basically everything. Okay? This is, like, really weird to, like, for God to deliver a message to people. Like, let's pick a guy who..."
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"...a joy that is more ample. That one moment brings more forgetfulness to me than twenty -five centuries have brought to the endeavor that..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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