{"product_id":"2940012680044","title":"Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde","description":"To most of us the Matelda of Dante has been scarcely more than a shape\u003cbr\u003e   existing in the mind of a poet. It may be that she now stands before us\u003cbr\u003e   not only as a woman of flesh and blood, but as one who has for us in\u003cbr\u003e   these days a marvellous message. One of the great cloud of witnesses to\u003cbr\u003e   the love and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, speaks to us in a German\u003cbr\u003e   BÈguine, who is now recognised by many as the original of her who\u003cbr\u003e   conducted Dante into \"the terrestrial Paradise.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Whether or no we regard her as the guide of Dante, may she be to us a\u003cbr\u003e   means whereby we \"forget the things that are behind, and press forward\u003cbr\u003e   to those that are before.\" May she yet be to some sorrowful souls the\u003cbr\u003e   guide into the blessed Garden of God--the garden no longer guarded by a\u003cbr\u003e   flaming sword, but opened to the sinner who \"has washed his robes, and\u003cbr\u003e   made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.\" May some to whom the future\u003cbr\u003e   is dark and fearful, and who carry as a heavy burden the sin of past\u003cbr\u003e   years, be led on across the river into the light, the sweetness, and\u003cbr\u003e   the rest of the green pastures of Christ--the sin and sorrow left\u003cbr\u003e   behind, remembered no more, for the Lord remembers them not. And in His\u003cbr\u003e   Presence, where there is the fulness of joy, the sufferings of this\u003cbr\u003e   present time can also be forgotten, for sorrow rejoiceth before Him.","brand":"Jack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079048020208,"sku":"2940012680044","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012680044_p0.jpg?v=1763571385","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012680044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}