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Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton

—It speaks of the mysteries of Divine justice; of the necessity of Faith for salvation; of the sins of certain kings.†
Canto ATOC

O divine Power, if thou lend thyself to me so that I may make manifest the image of the Blessed Realm imprinted within my head, thou shalt see me come to thy chosen tree, and crown myself then with those leaves of which the theme and thou will make me worthy.†
Canto 1-11

The Empyrean …. is the cause of the most swift motion of the Primum Mobile. because of the most ardent desire of every part of the latter to be conjoined with every part of that most divine quiet heaven.†
Canto 1-11

Within the heaven of the divine peace revolves a body, in whose virtue lies the being of all that it contains.†
Canto 1-11

Whereon I to her, In your marvellous aspects there shines I know not what divine which transmutes you from our first conceptions; therefore I was not swift in remembering; but now that which you say to me assists me, so that refiguring is plainer to me.†
Canto 1-11

Nay, it is essential to this blessed existence to hold ourselves within the divine will, whereby our very wills are made one.†
Canto 1-11

[4] The belief in the influence of the stars led men to assign to them divine powers, and to name their gods after them.†
Canto 1-11

"O beloved of the First Lover, O divine one," said I then, "whose speech inundates me, and warms me so that more and more it quickens me, my affection is not so profound that it can suffice to render to you grace for grace, but may He who sees and can, respond for this.†
Canto 1-11

I wish to know if man can make satisfaction to you[3] for defective vows with other goods, so that in your scales they may not be light?" looked at we with such divine eyes, full of the sparks of love, that my power, vanquished, turned its back, and almost I lost myself with eyes cast down.†
Canto 1-11

[1] From the brightness of my eyes illuminated by the divine light.†
Canto 1-11

[6] The divine nature only.†
Canto 1-11

[10] Vengeance was taken on the Jews, because although the death of Christ was divinely ordained, their crime in it was none the less.†
Canto 1-11

The Divine Goodness, which from Itself spurns all rancor, burning in Itself so sparkles that It displays the eternal beauties.†
Canto 1-11

But because the work of the workman is so much the more pleasing, the more it represents of the goodness of the heart whence it issues, the Divine Goodness which imprints the world was content to proceed by all Its paths to lift you up again; nor between the last night and the first day has there been or will there be so lofty and so magnificent a procedure either by one or by the other; for God was more liberal in giving Himself to make man sufficient to lift himself up again, than if…†
Canto 1-11

From a cold cloud winds never descended, or visible or not, go swift, that they would not seem impeded and slow to him who had seen these divine lights coming to us, leaving the circling begun first among the high Seraphim.†
Canto 1-11

The generated nature would always make its path like its progenitors, if the divine foresight did not conquer.†
Canto 1-11

[5] There was sung riot Bacchus, not Paean, but three Persons in a divine nature, and it and the human in one Person.†
Canto 12-22

[3] The material of contingent or temporal things, and the influences which shape them, are of various sort, so that the splendor of the Divine idea is visible in them in different degree.†
Canto 12-22

[6] If, however, the first Cause acts directly,—the fervent Love imprinting the clear Light of the primal Power,—there can be no imperfection in the created thing; it answers to the Divine idea.†
Canto 12-22

Let not dame Bertha and master Martin, seeing one rob, and another make offering, believe to see them within the Divine counsel:[10] for the one may rise and the other may fall.†
Canto 12-22

And I heard in the divinest light of the small circle a modest voice,[1] perhaps such as was that of the Angel to Mary, make answer, "As long as the festival of Paradise shall be, so long will our love radiate around us such a garment.†
Canto 12-22

O divine Pegasea,[1] who makest the wits of men glorious, and renderest them long-lived, as they, through thee, the cities and the kingdoms, illume me with thyself that I may set in relief their shapes, as I have conceived them I let thy power appear in these brief verses!†
Canto 12-22

the mysteries of divine justice
Canto 12-22 *

divine = coming from God

Well I know that if the Divine Justice makes any realm in heaven its mirror, yours does not apprehend it through a veil.†
Canto 12-22

[1] Here, if anywhere, the Divine Justice is reflected.†
Canto 12-22

[2] Concerning the Divine justice.†
Canto 12-22

As a falcon which, issuing from his hood, moves his head, and claps his wings, showing desire, and making himself fine; so I saw this ensign, which was woven of praise of the Divine Grace, become, with songs such as he knows who thereabove rejoices.†
Canto 12-22

Had he awaited the full light of Divine grace, he would have recognized his own inferiority.†
Canto 12-22

[6] The hiding place is the depth of the Divine decrees, which man cannot penetrate, but the justice of which in his selfconfidence he undertakes to question.†
Canto 12-22

Now he knows much of what the world cannot see of the divine grace, although his sight cannot discern its depth.†
Canto 12-22

Regnum coelorum[4] suffers violence from fervent love, and from a living hope which vanquishes the divine will; not in such wise as man overcomes man, but vanquishes it, because it wills to be vanquished, and, vanquished, vanquishes with its own benignity.†
Canto 12-22

[7] Before the divine institution of the rite of baptism his faith, hope, and charity served him in lieu thereof.†
Canto 12-22

Thus, to make my short sight clear, sweet medicine was given to me by that divine image.†
Canto 12-22

Then the love that was within it answered, "A divine light strikes upon me, penetrating through this wherein I embosom me: the virtue of which, conjoined with my vision, lifts me above myself so far that I see the Supreme Essence from which it emanates.†
Canto 12-22

[2] With the Divine light.†
Canto 12-22

Here is the rose,[1] in which the Divine Word became flesh: here are the lilies[2] by whose odor the good way was taken.†
Canto 23-33

I am angelic Love, and I circle round the lofty joy which breathes from the bosom which was the hostelry of our desire; and I shall circle, Lady of Heaven, while thou shalt follow thy Son and make the supreme sphere more divine because thou enterest it.†
Canto 23-33

From that which I noted of greatest beauty, I saw issue a fire so happy that it left there none of greater brightness; and three times it revolved round Beatrice with a song so divine that my fancy repeats it not to me; therefore the pen makes a leap, and I write it not, for our imagination, much more our speech, is of too vivid color[1] for such folds.†
Canto 23-33

I heard then, "The Old and the New proposition[5] which are so conclusive to thee,—why dost thou hold them for divine speech?"†
Canto 23-33

Of the profound divine condition on which I touch, the evangelic doctrine ofttimes sets the seal upon my mind.†
Canto 23-33

As a disciple who follows his teacher, prompt and willing, in that wherein he is expert, so that his worth may be disclosed: "Hope," said I, "is a sure expectation of future glory, which divine grace produces, and preceding merit.†
Canto 23-33

[4] Divine song.†
Canto 23-33

Begin then, and tell whereto thy soul is aimed, and make thy reckoning that sight is in thee bewildered and not dead; because the Lady who conducts thee through this divine region has in her look the virtue which the band of Ananias had.†
Canto 23-33

And if nature has made bait in human flesh, or art in its paintings, to catch the eyes in order to possess the mind, all united would seem naught compared to the divine pleasure which shone upon me when I turned me to her smiling face.†
Canto 23-33

And this heaven has no other Where than the Divine Mind, in which the love that revolves it is kindled, and the virtue which it rains down.†
Canto 23-33

But the transition is not unnatural, from the consideration of the Heaven which pours down Divine influence, to the thought of the engrossment of men in the pursuit of their selfish and transitory ends, in which they are blinded to heavenly and eternal good.†
Canto 23-33

And I to her, "If the world were set in the order which I see in those wheels, that which is propounded to me would have satisfied me; but in the world of sense the revolutions may be seen so much the more divine as they are more remote from the centre.†
Canto 23-33

[5] The planetary spheres partake more of the divine nature, and move more swiftly, in proportion to their distance from the earth, their centre.†
Canto 23-33

Those other loves, which go round about them, are called Thrones of the divine aspect, because they terminated the first triad.†
Canto 23-33

In this hierarchy are the three Divinities, first Dominations, and then the Virtues; the third order is of Powers.†
Canto 23-33

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wonderful; or god-like or coming from God

divine in Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton

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Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton