 So were created, nor can justly accuse Their maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 57by John Milton - 1899 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John S. Hatcher - Religion - 2005 - 290 pages
...foreknows that man will fail in Eden, His foreknowledge of these events does not cause them to occur: they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If...influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.27 In the remaining books of Paradise Lost Milton introduces his essential proof of the... | |
 | Tobias Gregory - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 261 pages
...none. So when Milton's God says As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. (PL 3.114-19) Milton is not having God rehearse what any good Protestant ought to know. He is making... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - Philosophy - 2006 - 210 pages
...their making, or their Fate; As if Predestination over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown.38 This passage tries to reconcile freedom with prejudice, and the consequence... | |
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