The phrase is glossed in class as the Old and New Testaments, the scriptural corpus on which Dante grounds the source of faith.
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parchments old and new
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"...founded? I, the Holy Ghost's abundant rain poured upon the parchments old and new. That is the syllogism that has proved with such persuasiveness..."
"saying that the Holy Ghost's abundant rain poured upon the parchments old and new, and here abundant rain is water, abundant rain is ink,..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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