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Jiang marks the end of the faith examination and says the next apostolic test in Paradise will be about hope under James.
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James
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...second test is hope and this will be asked by um james okay the apostle okay so let's go to 25 please"
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The read-aloud passage frames James as the apostolic embodiment of hope who asks Dante three linked questions: what hope is, what Dante's hope is, and where that hope comes from.
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He explicitly parses James's exam into three questions: define hope, state your hope, and explain its source.
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Jiang explains the passage by rejecting a theological rumor about James and insisting that only Jesus and Mary ascend to heaven bodily.
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He argues that the truly outrageous part is that Dante, unlike James, is presented as worthy of ascending to heaven bodily, which Jiang treats as another expression of Dante's deliberate poetic arrogance.
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"...second test is hope and this will be asked by um james okay the apostle okay so let's go to 25 please"
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"okay let's let's let's continue verse 10 for there i first found entry to that faith which makes souls welcome unto god and then..."
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"of our basilica has been described i shall pray upon thee for lest ye worship the most提le of the earth and let the whole..."
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"is tell how it has blossomed within your mind and from what source"
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"...to you okay okay stop okay all right so this is james and he's going to interrogate dante right and what the first thing..."
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"Okay. All right. So the reference is this. James, there's a theory among theologians that James was able to ascend to heaven in his..."
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"...his body. Okay? Right? Think about the arrogance of this. Only James is like, I'm not even worthy of ascending to heaven with my..."
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"...point is remember yesterday professor brahmers told us that uh william james uh he believed ghosts actually exist but they were really boring okay..."
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"...attention to this unity of character and sequence of events. Henry James in his essay on the art of fiction asks, what is character..."
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"...anything and that's that's a fascinating proposition isn't it um William James uh great American philosopher who was uh interested in psychic phenomena and..."
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"...and ordinary dreary stuff like that so there's similar to William James in this case there is Banquo saying the earth has bubbles as..."
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"...say this of his other heirs. His kingdoms now belong to James and Frederick, but they do not possess. His best bequest. How seldom..."
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