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Jiang's allegorical reading of the lady Francis marries: Poverty, first joined to Jesus and later willingly embraced by Francis.
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Poverty as bride
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "his mighty influence for even as a youth he ran to war against his father on behalf of her the lady unto whom just..."
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"his mighty influence for even as a youth he ran to war against his father on behalf of her the lady unto whom just..."
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"...rejected his community in order to wed poverty okay so the bride she is referring to poverty right and who married poverty before francis..."
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"...anger and your secrecy? What have I said about the only bride the Holy Ghost has known, the words that made you turn to..."
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"...who take the things of God that ought to be the brides of righteousness and make them fornicate for gold and silver, the time..."
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"...host that Christ with his own blood had taken as his bride. The other host, which flying, sees and sings the glory of the..."
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"...before he died, all of the troubled era of the lovely bride, whom lands the nails had one sits at his side."
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"...you're like, oh, he's praising God! He's praising the church, the bride of God, right? So, this is cognitive dissonance. That's why cognitive dissonance..."
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"...happy maiden rises and enters the dance to honor the new bride, and not through vanity or other failing, so did I see that..."
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"...be brought forth already ripe. Oh ancient father to him. Each bride is as a daughter and daughter -in -law devoutly as I can...."
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"...his likeness did not display a greater change than that the bride of christ was never nurtured by my blood and blood of linus..."
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"...mentions of uh Beatrice looking towards God like uh she's his bride and of uh Dante looking towards Beatrice not Beatrice is so beautiful..."
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"...vanquished and can never probe its death depth so that the bride of him who was for him confided in the sickest of men..."
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