In the next last canto in the Paradise, St. Bernard is going through the main figures and souls of the amphitheater of the Divine Rose, both from the Old and New Testament, as well as the concepts of predestination and how the whole movement of the Comedy was initiated by Mary, Lucy and Beatrice - to save the suffering and lost soul of Dante in a Dark Forest, which is the opening tercet of the first Canto in Inferno.