Commentary Par XIII 115-120

A rush to judgment is, unsurprisingly, condemned.  In the last verse, Dante's genial understanding of the way we humans tend to fall in love with whatever opinion we contrive to form rescues the passage from banality.  If there is one passage in the last four cantos in which the voice of Thomas, usually so fully 'captured' by the poet and so distinct from his own, seems to be indistinguishable from Dante's, it is found in these six lines.