Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain. - Dante Alighieri

people, when they see their leader snatch at those same goods that greedily they crave, graze on just those, and do not seek beyond. 103 So – as you may well see – bad government is why the world is so malignant now. It’s not that nature is corrupt in you.

When Israel came out of Egypt and the House of Jacob from among a strange people, Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. For if we regard the letter alone, what is set before us is the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt in the days of Moses; if the allegory, our redemption wrought by Christ; if the moral we are shown the conversion of the soul from the grief and wretchedness of sin to the state of grace; if the anagogical. we are shown the departure of the holy soul from the thraldom of this corruption to the liberty of eternal glory. And
although these mystical meanings are called by various names, they may all be called in general allegorical, since they differ from the literal and historical.

Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.