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Dante on Divine Justice

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Dante Alighieri in a painting by Domenico di Michelino (1465)

Però ne la giustizia sempiterna

la vista che riceve il vostro mondo,

com’ occhio per lo mare, entro s’interna;

che, ben che da la proda veggia il fondo,

in pelago nol vede; e nondimeno

èli, ma cela lui l’esser profondo.

Therefore the sight that is granted

To your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice

As the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom,

In the open sea it does not,

And yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso canto xix, lines 58-63 (ca. 1315)

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