Jiang says Dante names Dido outside Virgil's direct speech in order to restore a figure Virgil refuses to name.
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Restoration
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The Dante passage says later obedience and humility cannot match the height humanity sought through disobedience, so God must restore humanity by divine action rather than by human satisfaction alone.
One student tries to soften the offense by treating a one-time affair as a mistake rather than a true relationship, while another says the only path back is for the betrayed partner to see genuine remorse.
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"Yeah, he names Dido, okay? Do you understand? Because remember what happened was that Virgil would go on about a thousand different people and..."
"Verse 94. Now fix your eyes on the profundity of the eternal counsel. Heed as closely as you are able to my reasoning. Man..."
"be between the final night and the first day a chain of action so lofty and so magnificent as he enacted when he followed..."
"Yeah. Sure. I think, uh, you know, just like Clinton used to say, I just have a, uh, I don't have sex relationship with,..."
"Uh, I think the only way would be if the party. Sort of committed the sin, did the cheating, the other partner can see..."
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