In Canto Three, when first entering hell he asks who all the loud cries are coming from. Virgil says,
"This state of misery is clutched by those sad souls whose works in life merited neither praise nor infamy" (25). Basically, there are going to be a lot of people in hell to keep Heaven "pure". These souls are the ones who were not bad enough for the "deep abyss", yet were not good enough for Heaven. Going through the motions and not really caring or putting much effort into spiritual growth does not make you a bad person; it just does not make you good enough for Heaven. None of us are good enough, but there should be a constant yearning for a relationship with the Father and to do His good works. Faith without works is dead, so if there is no fruit then they have no faith. This is a good picture of the reality that the path is narrow.
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