The inhabitants of the fiery tombs inside Dis, grouped with like in heated sepulchres.
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The text of Dis introduces a plain of burning tombs where heretics are segregated together in fiery sepulchres.
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"What good is it to thrust against the fates? You're Cerberus, if you remember well, for that had both his throat and chin stripped..."
"...of sighs and agony, and he to me, here are our heretics and those who followed them from every sect. Those tombs are much..."
"...especially god and uh the first people we meet are the heretics okay the people who have misled uh people from god and their..."
"...because simony is named after simony magus who is the first heretic in the catholic church so simony is a bad thing they kept..."
"...you know Catholic theology, you know that Simon Magus is a heretic, right? The first great heretic of the Catholic faith. And so it's..."
"...Antichrist. And the Catholic Church seems to be more worried about heretics. But the Antichrist is going to be somebody inside the Christian community..."
"uh Dante he is a heretic he is not going to follow church theology and um the the sexual nature of this language what..."
"is the bride of god um well if i was a heretic i would say mary magdalene"
"...church right the bride of god yeah yeah okay that's a heretic all right the bride of god is the catholic church okay so..."
"...his impetus with greatest force, struck where the thickets of the heretics offered the most resistance. And from him there sprang the streams with..."
"you know for the Kabbalah or for heretic philosophy or just for Islam okay it does change you as a person it makes you..."
"...Rogue says, who else bought the dip, talked mad trash to heretics and got strange this month? Yeah. I mean, you got to be..."
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