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... mankind , at which point God will forgive Satan's victims . Since one does not forgive a victim , however , God's ... mankind's ex- pense ) is ill - suited to allay a reader's suspicions that good and evil are not in this poem quite what ...
... mankind , at which point God will forgive Satan's victims . Since one does not forgive a victim , however , God's ... mankind's ex- pense ) is ill - suited to allay a reader's suspicions that good and evil are not in this poem quite what ...
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... mankind in such a wretched state . Though Adam's response to the Nimrod - Babel passage is not a par- ticularly fresh or illuminating one , it does give us an example of what a spiritually regenerate reader can be expected to glean from ...
... mankind in such a wretched state . Though Adam's response to the Nimrod - Babel passage is not a par- ticularly fresh or illuminating one , it does give us an example of what a spiritually regenerate reader can be expected to glean from ...
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... mankind what he , Moses , failed to do . If we read the story at the first level , Moses as a man is impressive but ultimately a failure ; at the second level , both his success and failure are signposts pointing toward a great triumph ...
... mankind what he , Moses , failed to do . If we read the story at the first level , Moses as a man is impressive but ultimately a failure ; at the second level , both his success and failure are signposts pointing toward a great triumph ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton