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The quoted Dante passage says mortals should never take vows rashly, and that Jephthah should have said 'I did amiss' rather than commit a worse act by keeping faith with a bad vow.
Jiang reads Beatrice's line about doing worse by keeping faith as naming a real paradox: vow-keeping can become morally more stupid than vow-breaking when literal obedience destroys innocent life.
"...should have said i did amiss and not done worse by keeping faith okay okay"
"...should have said i did amiss and not done worse by keeping faith and you can find that same stupidity so so you see..."
"right doing worse by keeping faith doesn't make any sense right keep on going and you can find that"
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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