Dr. Jonathan Juilfs

They're intelligible readings, right?

They're even beyond what our senses can determine.

So

Something about this, and Wesley, your comment about the lovely interplay of the different orders kind of speaking, no one is going to get this in full.

But even to catch a glimpse of it, a part of it, is enough to propel you on the journey for the rest of your life.

And there's something deeply, I've always felt this when Junius was talking about the reception of Paradiso.

I think some of the reason the scholastic community struggles sometimes with it is that it's deeply evangelical.

He sees heaven as good news.

If you know what awaits us, then there is a whole bunch of stuff that we might be able to endure and undergo in the meantime in order to have that thing on the other side.

And Dante himself knew all too well the pain and anxiety of exile.

And so I've been thinking a lot about kind of how these two things are related.

One of them feels like a complete Debbie Downer.

But the other one is you might be willing to endure that if you knew the glory that awaited you on the other side.

And something tells me that Dante Poet is someone who believes that this is real.

Whenever I...

I always use Muses' translation here.

This is the Penguin edition and the second Penguin edition, not the one that was done earlier by, who's our Oxford?

Anyway, in Muses' translation in his notes, he says, I'm really tempted here to use the word superhuman.

And part of what he was trying to get at was to keep it on the human side, but to say it was the humanity that we always should have had, not something that we had to, it was something lost, not something that had to go above and beyond what it already.

And I liked that logic in part because it gives,