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The Banquet (Il Convito)

CHAPTER VII
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He performed these miracles, then, in His own name for His saints; and many men are so obstinate that they are in doubt of those miracles if there be the least mist or cloud around them; and they cannot believe any miracle unless they have visible experience of the same; and this Lady is a thing visibly miraculous, of which the eyes of men daily can have experience, and which can make the other miracles appear possible to us.

Wherefore it is manifest that this Lady, with her marvellous aspect, assists our Faith.

And, therefore, finally I say: We, content to call Her face a Miracle, have Faith made sure: For that God made her ever to endure.
And thus ends the second section of the second principal part of the Song according to its Literal meaning..


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