 Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...  Paradise Lost - Page 101by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...Sin as a personification follows PL 3.446, cd. Flannagan. 7 The absurd debate of theologian-devils "Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, /Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, /And found no end, in wandering mazes lost" (2.559 °') anticipates Limbo. Fidelia's tutelage "Of God,... | |
 | L. Gordon Tait - Religion - 2001 - 292 pages
...Ibid., 65. 38. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 2.557-61: Odiers apart sat on a hill retired, In dioughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 39. "Lectures on Divinity," Works, 4:87-88. 40. Ibid, 67.... | |
 | Steve Mason - Religion - 2001 - 446 pages
...Christian theology has made famous attempts to tackle the problem. Milton writes of the fallen angels who: reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And formed no end, in wandering mazes lost. Paradise Lost 2:557f., cited in Greene, Moira, 397. 154... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 2001 - 667 pages
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 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - Culture and law - 2002 - 296 pages
...ourselves, either ignorantly so or knowing "what we are." 18 Justice, Grace, and Free Will in Paradise Lost Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. (2: 557-61) At the end of Book 10, Adam and Eve, after a... | |
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