The Importance of Holding on to the Tension

The descent is really important it's by going most fully into the difficulty of what's implied by even the notion of hell not just abandoning it too quickly. Dante wasn't wrong about limbo if he's reformed limbo himself and so after this moment of light Dante says we couldn't linger there for long we had to continue our journey. The church too eventually abandoned limbo not until 2007 so it leaves you wondering at the end of this canter as you read it in 2020 what else has Dante foreseen that people are going to be catching up with.