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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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Rhipeus
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Jiang rejects a simplistic will-only answer by noting that Rhipeus could not consciously choose a heaven or Christ he never historically knew.
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Jiang stresses that Rhipeus is basically Virgil’s own minor invention, which means Dante uses Virgil’s character against Virgil’s worldview.
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Virgil’s single line on Rhipeus as uniquely just becomes, for Jiang, the seed Dante expands into a full rebuttal: the gods must care about justice after all.
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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, okay. But Rufus couldn't have willed it because he didn't even know heaven exists, right? He didn't know Jesus exists. He didn't know..."
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"Exactly. So he's constantly excusing himself, right? He'd rather, again, burn in hell than just to admit he's wrong. Riffius is interesting because who..."
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"Virgil writes, uniquely the most just of all the Trojans, the most faithful preserver of equity, but the gods decided otherwise."
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