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Jiang treats Rhipeus as a more radical salvation case than Statius because Rhipeus lived before Jesus and even before Hebrew revelation.
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The first paradox attached to Cato is chronological and sacramental: because he lived before Christ, a student says he should be in limbo rather than presiding over Purgatory.
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Jiang proposes that Cato belongs to the class of pre-Christian souls whose hearts were already oriented toward Christ before Jesus arrived historically.
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Jiang answers that in Divine Comedy Jephthah would be infernal not primarily because of the vow itself but because, as a pre-Christian figure born before Jesus, he cannot access heaven under Dante's formal Christian rule.
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"Okay, stop, okay, all right. So again, this makes sense until we get to the fifth and last person who is Rufus. And what..."
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"Okay, stop. Okay. So the solitary patriarch, he is the master purgatory and his name is Kato. Can someone tell me why having Kato..."
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"Yes, because he was born before the time of Jesus. So he should be in limbo. Exactly. Okay."
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"Exactly, yeah. So what we know is that Jesus did take away with him the best souls. But the people he took were like..."
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"Jesus went down to hell, he could see that Kato, even though he was not officially Christian, he was in his heart Christian, okay?..."
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"yes okay so um sorry why would jepha be inferno and not in paradise do you guys know why okay yeah i i say..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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