themes: the perfection of god’s justice. Bearing the inscription the gates of hell explicitly state that god was moved to create hell by justice. Wisdom was employed to know what punishments would be just, power to create the forms of justice, and love to show that the punishments are conditioned with compassion, however difficult it may be to recognize. Certainly then, if the motive of hell’s creation was justice, then its purpose was (and still is) to provide justice. The third circle of Dante’s Hell…
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