“By the length,” says Venturi, “was represented the outpouring of God upon his creatures; by the roundness, the return of this outpouring to God, as to its first source and ultimate end.”

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Dante repeats the word vidi , I saw, three times, as a rhyme, to express the intenseness of his vision. ↩

Buti thinks that this light is the Holy Ghost; Philalethes, that it is the Logos, or second person of the Trinity; Tommaseo, that it is Illuminating Grace. ↩

Didron, Christian Iconography , I 234, says:⁠—