 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
 | Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski - Philosophy - 1996 - 224 pages
...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or by me immutablie foreseen,... | |
 | John Constable - 1993 - 584 pages
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 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...chooses death. As God says of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass,...in all Both what they judge and what they choose. (3.120-23) In Samson Agonistes, though providence fulfills God's prophecy, the play is a tragedy because... | |
 | William Gerber - God - 1995 - 166 pages
...expressed essentially the same thought in his Paradise Lost, in a passage in which God said: (346) If I foreknew. Foreknowledge had no influence on their...fault Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. of reconciling God's foreknowledge with human freedom. Hartshorne wrote, in l956: (347) If the events... | |
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