• The Heaven of the Fixed Stars continued. St. John examines Dante on Charity, in the sense of Love, as in Milton, Paradise Lost , XII 583:⁠— “Love, By name to come called Charity.” ↩
• Ananias, the disciple at Damascus, whose touch restored the sight of Saul. Acts 9:17:⁠— “And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.” ↩
• God is the beginning and end of all my love. ↩
• The commentators differ as to which of the philosophers Dante here refers; whether to Aristotle, Plato, or Pythagoras. ↩
• The angels. ↩
• Exodus 33:19:⁠— “And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee.” ↩
• John 1:1:⁠— “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.⁠ ⁠… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,⁠ ⁠… full of grace and truth.” ↩