Jiang restates the standard theology that God calls creatures and they may choose to turn toward or away from him, whereas angels here are depicted as always turned toward him.
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"...away from God. Right. And here the angels. Are. Are always turning towards God. OK, so they've reached perfection. But my question, my question..."
"...are essentially these morphic fields okay and so when edward is turning around and staring at friends our friends are turned around because there's..."
"...That conversation, that, that dialogue between Dante and Virgil, it's a turning point now, because it sounds correct, but there's a part to it..."
"...have to kill your father to become yourself. It's also the turning point, like past 16, right? Like halfway to, uh, purgatory that your..."
"...the people who are mere moved, much more, much more swiftly, turning away their faces, hurrying the pace because of leanness and desire. And..."
"109. By now we've reached the final turning we would meet and took the pathway right at which we were preoccupied with other cares...."
"...sick woman who finds no rest upon her feather bed but turning tossing tries to"
"...as to satisfy me. Whenever one of these keys fails, not turning appropriately in the lock, he said to us, this gate of entry..."
"...sight, a thing for which they longed, did not delay in turning toward him. But I would not have you, reader, be deflected from..."
"...than virgil so he's trying to show that this is the turning point where i will be you know the better poet or the..."
"there while i fork him fast and turning toward my master then he said ask on if you would learn some more from him..."
"have to be like turning one into two it can be turning one into multiple scatter well no no the"
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