Canto XIX. To his intense surprise Dante now hears the mystic eagle

proclaim in trumpet tones that justice and pity shall be exacted, and

that no man shall be saved without them. He adds that eternal judgment

is incomprehensible to mortal ken, that mere professions are vain, and

that many so-called Christian potentates (some of whom he names) will

present a sorry figure on Judgment Day.

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