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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · the earth and its formation · resurrection of the body · providence and divine governance · elements and corruption theory · divine providence · creation of first humans · celestial astronomy
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · curiosity (1) · wonder (1)
Beatrice and then the narrative move from abstract doctrine to celestial astronomy and hierarchy: the heavens are guided by divine providence, elements and living things are informed by created virtue, and resurrection is supported by the creation story of first parents.
Goodness Divine, that doth imprint the world, Has been contented to proceed by each And all its ways to lift you up again; Nor ’twixt the first day and the final night Such high and such magnificent proceeding By one or by the other was or shall be; For God more bounteous was himself to give To make man able to uplift himself, Than if he only of himself had pardoned; And all the other modes were in…