II. c. 16.
[88] _La natura universale, cioe Iddio._ (Convito, Tr. III. c. 4.)
[89] Inferno, III. 7, 8.
[90] Inferno, XX. 30. Mr. W.M. Rossetti strangely enough renders this
verse "Who hath a passion for God's judgeship" _Compassion porta_, is
the reading of the best texts, and Witte adopts it. Buti's comment is
"_cioe porta pena e dolore di colui che giustamente e condannato da
Dio che e sempre giusto_." There is an analogous passage in "The
Revelation of the Apostle Paul," printed in the "Proceedings of the
American Oriental Society" (Vol. VIII. pp. 213, 214): "And the angel
answered and said, 'Wherefore dost thou weep? Why! art thou more
merciful than God?' And I said, 'God forbid, O my lord; for God is
good and long-suffering unto the sons of men, and he leaves every one
of them to his own will, and he walks as he pleases'" This is
precisely Dante's view.
[91] Inferno, VIII 40.
[92] "I following her (Moral Philosophy) in the work as well as the
passion, so far as I could, abominated and disparaged the errors of
men, not to the infamy and shame of the erring, but of the errors."
(Convito, Tr IV. c. 1.) "Wherefore in my judgment as he who defames
a worthy man ought to be avoided by people and not listened to, so a
vile man descended of worthy ancestors ought to be hunted out by
all.
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