At the end of the film, years after Mozart's death, he mocks God saying to a priest, " Your merciful god. He killed his beloved (Mozart) rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of his glory" (he Salieri was "the mediocrity")
All he wanted was just a small part of his glory and he didn't get it.
That comment speaks to what sin is all about - wanting God's glory for ourselves.
The gospel irony of it all is that
God killed His Beloved in order to give us His glory. No other God is like this.
Jesus is willing to give up glory so that we might receive it.
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