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  #1 Sean Winkler on 28 Jan 11

   

  The common idea is that the Inferno, or Hell, and Purgatory reside underground in eternal flames of torment and suffering. According to Dante this would be true for Inferno where the souls of the damned eternally suffer for their sins in the Inferno. The idea of the inferno is that the souls did nothing in their life to receive heavenly grace, and therefore should have no chance of moving onto Purgatory, but rather be compelled by Divine Justice to their punishment. But Dante's vision of Purgatory is something completely different. His idea of Purgatory as a towering mountain that leads into the heavens was completely revolutionary of the time, just as the idea that the suffering of Purgatory is completely willful. No prior inclination of Hell or Purgatory ever took these two concepts into action until Dante did. It sets the Divine Comedy apart from other Divine novels of the time and forever to come.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The common idea is that the Inferno, or Hell, and Purgatory reside underground in eternal flames of torment and suffering. According to Dante this would be true for Inferno where the souls of the damned eternally suffer for their sins in the Inferno. The idea of the inferno is that the souls did nothing in their life to receive heavenly grace, and therefore should have no chance of moving onto Purgatory, but rather be compelled by Divine Justice to their punishment. But Dante's vision of Purgatory is something completely different. His idea of Purgatory as a towering mountain that leads into the heavens was completely revolutionary of the time, just as the idea that the suffering of Purgatory is completely willful. No prior inclination of Hell or Purgatory ever took these two concepts into action until Dante did. It sets the Divine Comedy apart from other Divine novels of the time and forever to come.</div>

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