Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Reading Diary A: Dante's Inferno





Limbo

  • the demons of the inferno would change colors when they were tired and weary
  • they would also speak blasphemies against God and all those that followed God 
  • they all were tired but they went to the shore where all those that do not follow God meet 
  • the reason that they meet at this shore is so that good spirits cannot pass
  • When Dante went into the heathens he said that is was very dark and very deep and clouded 
  • in the first circle of the abyss there was no sound other than the tremble of the earth that was made by the sorrows of the men and the women 
  • these people where there not because they had sinned but because they were living beings and their life had value 
  • they were in the heathens because they did not value that worth of life since they were not baptized and that alone was enough for them to be damned 
  • by doing so they did not follow God and Christianity correctly 
  • when Dante was told this he was sad because he was certain that he knew good people that were not baptized that were probably in this situation
  • in the end Dante finds out that no human was saved before the time of Adam
  • Jesus saved Adam and all those that came after him after he came into the Limbo and saved their souls
Circle 1 of the Limbo 
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