Jiang extends the same logic to explain why some infants can appear in paradise: parental virtue and constant prayer may carry them upward.
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"...very, very high. Okay? And this explains why there are certain infants in paradise, right? Because their parents were really virtuous and prayed for..."
"...we'll put you in Purgatory, okay? Who else is in Purgatory? Infants, right? Okay, infants. So another way of saying this is, like, this..."
"...says you know i would beat out the brains of an infant rather than quit this deed before it's done there's a very strange..."
"...not an outcry but a sigh there i am with the infant innocence those whom the teeth of death had ceased before me they..."
"...is not an outcry but aside there i am with the infant innocence those whom the teeth of death had ceased before they were..."
"...else okay and i yes anyone else yes i thought the infant innocence going to paradise oh no no no um it depends on..."
"...Lisa's hands is not the woman's hands. It must be baby's infant's hands and the face is like a man is not a woman...."
"...it was old, than if your death had come before your infant words were spent? All Tuscany acclaimed his name, the man who moved..."
"...goes back to the idea in heaven where um if an infant dies but the parents are very virtuous and pray for the infant..."
"...down to the market. Already citizens of note were Giuda and Infant Gato. I shall tell a thing incredible and true."
"yep no infant who wakes long after his usual hour would turn his face toward milk as quickly as i hurried toward that stream..."
"...of their hair. Without then any merit in their works these infants are assigned to different ranks. Proclivity at birth the only difference. In..."
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