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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Illumination
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "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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"How many are to rise again with heads cropped close, whom ignorance prevents from reaching repentance in and at the end of life? And..."
"...not Odorici? Glory of Gubbio, glory of that art they call illumination now in Paris."
"...light can just pass through it right for there to be illumination"
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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.
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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