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 16 Antigone turns on the conflict between divine law and human ordinance; and, as we know, these rival principles often come into sharp conflict: August. Conff. iii. 8 (an important chapter); Thomas Aquinas, Summa c. Gentiles, chaps. cxvi, cxxvii,, who points out, however, that the terminus ad quem of all divine law is the love of God. Cf. the noble words of Dante (Paradiso):