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Michel De Montaigne, a fifteenth century French essayist once said that, "The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. (21st Century Dictionary of Quotation, 1993) In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri conveys the concept that actions throughout life determine the quality of the afterlife. In various ....
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.... in which people live their lives determines the state of their eternal existence. Dante sees the soulless people waiting on the shore of a beach, waiting to be taken to eternal suffering. Virgil relates to Dante, in regards to these creatures, " …all together they drew to that grim shore where all must come who lose the fear of God. Weeping and cursing they come forevermore…" (103-105) Losing the fear of God is the primary cause of the pursuit of evil ways. Fear of God redeems the soul and guides each person past evil. When favor with God is lost and not recovered, ....
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