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Jiang says simony names a corruption the church itself officially condemns, since it is associated with Simon Magus, yet continues to practice.
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Simon Magus
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"Canto 19. As Simon Magus, O his sad disciples, rapacious ones who take the things of God that ought to be the brides of..."
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"...for this failure is Clement, and God will punish Clement as Simon Magus was punished as well. If you know Catholic theology, you know..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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