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... evil . I the Lord do all these things . It is not Satan , the Prince of Darkness , who creates evil . God is all - powerful and is the creator of everything that exists . But Isaiah did not draw Job's conclusions , which is that if God ...
... evil . I the Lord do all these things . It is not Satan , the Prince of Darkness , who creates evil . God is all - powerful and is the creator of everything that exists . But Isaiah did not draw Job's conclusions , which is that if God ...
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... evil can lead to being fooled by evil . So there is really no way out of the paradox . In any case , for Milton a life of effortless virtue in a seasonless and workless Paradise was , as Socrates said of the unexamined life ...
... evil can lead to being fooled by evil . So there is really no way out of the paradox . In any case , for Milton a life of effortless virtue in a seasonless and workless Paradise was , as Socrates said of the unexamined life ...
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... Evil for Milton remained evil , something called forth by the Fall and subsequently to be constantly fought against . Milton would have thought Pope's formulation altogether too slick . His own sterner view of the nature of evil and the ...
... Evil for Milton remained evil , something called forth by the Fall and subsequently to be constantly fought against . Milton would have thought Pope's formulation altogether too slick . His own sterner view of the nature of evil and the ...
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