Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... rational and good , held as an inevitable assumption that God can not contradict himself . Thus , they reasoned , there can be in reality no contradic- tions within the Scripture nor between that Book and the Book of Nature ; and since ...
... rational and good , held as an inevitable assumption that God can not contradict himself . Thus , they reasoned , there can be in reality no contradic- tions within the Scripture nor between that Book and the Book of Nature ; and since ...
Page 91
... rational being should not , Milton believed , worship a demon , however powerful . But if , as Peter asserts , Satan rebels not from righteous indignation , but from jealousy and ambi- tion , then it was a psychological truth for Milton ...
... rational being should not , Milton believed , worship a demon , however powerful . But if , as Peter asserts , Satan rebels not from righteous indignation , but from jealousy and ambi- tion , then it was a psychological truth for Milton ...
Page 144
Joan Pamela Secord Bennett. rational creature of God's making and in remaining true to that nature against the influence of Satan , who is already a slave to his ambition and ... rational creature of God's making and in remaining true to 144.
Joan Pamela Secord Bennett. rational creature of God's making and in remaining true to that nature against the influence of Satan , who is already a slave to his ambition and ... rational creature of God's making and in remaining true to 144.
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