“Hosanna, holy God of Sabaoth, illuminating with thy brightness the happy fires of these realm.”

“Hosanna, holy God of Sabaoth, illuminating with thy brightness the happy fires of these realm.”

Dante is still in the planet Mercury, which receives from the sun six times more light and heat than the Earth. ↩

By Substance is here meant spirit, or angel; the word having the sense of Subsistence. See note 1541 . ↩

The rapidity of the motion of the flying spirits is beautifully expressed in these lines. ↩