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Jiang's extreme valuation for the Divine Comedy as a text through which the universe or God speaks via Dante.
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word of God
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...say is that I really think divine comedy is the word of God. It's a universe speaking through Dante. And that's why I say..."
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Jiang endorses the student's comment and then says the Divine Comedy is the word of God, or the universe speaking through Dante, which is why he regards the poem as perfect and free of flaw.
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Jiang sets up Ezekiel as a parallel case of ascent and reception of divine speech in order to compare prophetic transmission with Dante's journey.
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"...say is that I really think divine comedy is the word of God. It's a universe speaking through Dante. And that's why I say..."
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"...going to ask Google, okay? How does Ezekiel receive the word of God? All right. So, Ezekiel, it's a book of the Bible. And..."
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"...meaning it grapevine it comes through to us is the word of god okay because authentic dies in year 1321 and um in year..."
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"...go back to earth and be able to take the word of God back with him?"
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"...you know for a fact that the Bible is the word of God? And what Donnan says is, well, in real life there's evidence...."
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"...And how do we know the Bible is actually the word of God? What would he tell you?"
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"...abyss of a great error for long centuries until the word of god willed to descent to where the nature that was sundered from..."
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"...it meant was you are the one chosen and the word of God was revealed to your language to spread the word of God..."
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"Were they meant to be chosen to spread the word of God? But when they first had that crisis of faith, when their temple..."
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"...truth, what you're really saying is that he's speaking the word of God. Right? Because what is truth? Truth is the universe, which is..."
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"...for the Jews believe, oh no, the Bible is the word of God. But if it's the word of God, why are there so..."
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"The Pope is the Word of God. Whatever the Pope says is the Word of God. Okay? Okay, it's that simple."
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