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... Bible . But in the Bible itself " God is always described or outlined not as he really is but in such a way as will make him conceivable to us . " 4 This amounts to saying that when God portrays himself in the Bible in anthropomorphic ...
... Bible . But in the Bible itself " God is always described or outlined not as he really is but in such a way as will make him conceivable to us . " 4 This amounts to saying that when God portrays himself in the Bible in anthropomorphic ...
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... Bible bears a heavy burden of interpretation . The poem itself " reads " the Bible and bears in its every line testimony to the gravity and effort of that enterprise . The scenes in Hell and Heaven , the descriptions of the Garden , the ...
... Bible bears a heavy burden of interpretation . The poem itself " reads " the Bible and bears in its every line testimony to the gravity and effort of that enterprise . The scenes in Hell and Heaven , the descriptions of the Garden , the ...
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... Bible speaks of diffi- cult matters - matters hard to understand and hard to accept . Reading the Bible is Christian heroism of the highest order . And that heroism applies equally to the reader of Paradise Lost , who is being offered ...
... Bible speaks of diffi- cult matters - matters hard to understand and hard to accept . Reading the Bible is Christian heroism of the highest order . And that heroism applies equally to the reader of Paradise Lost , who is being offered ...
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