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| The Blasphemers, sodomites and usurers |
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| Punishment: They walk upon the burning plain. The rain descends as fire. They are subject to the wrath of nature. |
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Description: They abandoned themselves to the tempest of their passions. They were preoccupied with bodily and sexual pleasures.
Punishment: They are forever swept up in the tempest of Hell, denied the light and reason of God. |
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Description: They are falsifiers of money.
Punishment: Punished by loathsome diseases, they cannot move from where they lie. The disease is compounded by other afflictions including an eternity of unbearable thirst. |
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| Punishment: They are hidden in great flames which are their own guilty conscience. |
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Description: They pretend to be someone else.
Punishment: They must run without pause, chasing the internal apparition of those they impersonated while they are preyed upon by their own furies. |
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Description: They are falsifiers of words. They give false testimony.
Punishment: Punished by loathsome diseases, they cannot move from where they lie. The disease is compounded by other afflictions including an eternity of unbearable thirst. |
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Description: They deceive the senses.
Punishment: They are punished by affliction of every sense: by darkness, stench, thirst, filth, loathsome diseases, and a shreiking din. |
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| Punishment: They are sunk in excrement. |
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| The Fortune Tellers and Diviners |
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| Their punishment is to have their heads turned backwards on their bodies and to be compelled to walk backwards through all eternity, their eyes blinded by tears. |
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Description: They wallowed in food and drink and made no higher use of the gifts of God.
Punishment: They must spend eternity in a gigantic garbage dump filled with stinking snow, vile slush and freezing rain. |
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Description: They took advantage of their position to gain money and property dishonestly.
Punishment: They are sunk in boiling pitch and guarded by demons who tear them to pieces with claws and grappling hooks if they catch them above the surface of their pitch. |
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Description: They did violence to God by denying imortality.
Punishment: They are placed in fiery tombs. |
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Description: They lacked all moderation in regulating their expenses.
Punishment: The sinners are divided into two raging mobs, each soul amoung them straining madly at a great boulder-like weight. |
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Description: They appear holy on the outside but are deceitful.
Punishment: They are weighted down by great leaden robes. They walk eternally round and round a narrow track. The robes are brilliantly gilded on the outside and are shaped like a monk's habit. |
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Description: Their lives were neither good nor evil but only for themselves.
Punishment: Eternally unclassified, they race round and round pursuing a wavering banner that runs forever before them through dirty air. |
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Description: They took no sides in the rebellion of the angels.
Punishment: Eternally unclassified, they race round and round pursuing a wavering banner that runs forever before them through dirty air. |
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| The Panderers and Seducers |
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Description: They goaded others to serve their own foul purposes.
Punishment: They make two files, one along either bank of the ditch and are driven at an endless fast walk by horned demons who hurry them along with great lashes. |
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Description: They are sellers of ecclesiastical favors. They made a mockery of holy office.
Punishment: They are placed upside down in round, tub-like holes and their feet are set ablaze. The holes symbolize baptismal fonts. |
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| Punishment: They are hacked and torn through all eternity by a great demon with a bloody sword. |
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| Punishment: Their souls are encased in thorny trees and their leaves eaten by odius harpies, the overseers of the damned. |
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| Punishment: They are in a pit of monstrous reptiles who curl themselves about the sinners like living coils of rope. |
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| Treacherous against Blood ties |
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| Punishment: Their bodies are submerged in ice. Their necks and heads are out of the ice and they are permitted to bow their heads. |
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| The Treacherous to the Ties of Hospitality |
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| Punishment: They are submerged in ice. Only half their faces are above the ice and their tears freeze in their eye sockets, sealing them with crystal visors. |
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| The Treacherous to their Countries |
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| Punishment: They are submerged in ice. Their heads are above the ice but they cannot bend their heads. |
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| The Treacherous to their Masters |
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| Punishment: They lie completely sealed in ice, twisted and distorted into every conceivable posture. |
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| The Violent against Neighbors |
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Description: They shed the blood of others.
Punishment: They are immersed in boiling blood forever. |
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| Punishment: They are buried forever below the stinking waters of the river Styx, gargling the words of an endless chant in a grotesque parody of singing a hymn. |
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| What punishment does Caiaphas, the high priest of the Jews who counseled the Pharisees to crucify Jesus in the name of public expedience, get? |
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| He is crucified to the floor of Hell by three great stakes. |
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| What is the name of the capitol of Hell? |
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| Who gaurds the capitol of Hell? |
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| What is the climate like in the bottom of Hell? |
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| What route must Dante take in order to get to the light of God? |
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| He must first descend through Hell, then ascend through Purgatory and then towards the light of God. |
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| In Dante's Inferno, what does the dark woods symbolize? |
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| What is the symbol for divine illumination in Dante's Inferno? |
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| Which of the following animals symbolizes malice and fraud? |
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| Which of the following animals symbolizes violence and ambition? |
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| In Dante's Inferno, what does the hill symbolize? |
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| Which animal symbolizes incontinence? |
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| In Dante's Inferno, what does Virgil symbolize? |
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