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... God . Milton is wrestling with Job's question : why should the just man suffer ? What is the nature of God's world in which such things happen ? This inexplicable event , the first of its kind that has touched him , has cast a dark ...
... God . Milton is wrestling with Job's question : why should the just man suffer ? What is the nature of God's world in which such things happen ? This inexplicable event , the first of its kind that has touched him , has cast a dark ...
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... God's providence . The speech of the last mourner , St. Peter , is , like the passage on fame , a nominal digression , but this harsh and vehement invective - all in pastoral terms - brings out an- other aspect of God's unaccountable ...
... God's providence . The speech of the last mourner , St. Peter , is , like the passage on fame , a nominal digression , but this harsh and vehement invective - all in pastoral terms - brings out an- other aspect of God's unaccountable ...
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... God , " If not depraved from good . " Matter is thus inherently good and in its various forms and degrees is in a per ... God's world . Book eight is a large link in the prepa- ration for the fall . In answer to Adam's question , an old ...
... God , " If not depraved from good . " Matter is thus inherently good and in its various forms and degrees is in a per ... God's world . Book eight is a large link in the prepa- ration for the fall . In answer to Adam's question , an old ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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