4/9/2023 0 Comments Paradise lost book 3![]() ![]() It is interesting that before people are even tempted, God has already determined not to carry out the punishment he had threatened. The Son is described (lines 135–43) and then he speaks (lines 144–66), agreeing with the Father’s choice of grace, thus not to give Satan the victory. There is a little more of this distinction between humans and angels at lines 400–2. Self-tempted, self-depraved: man falls deceivedīy the other first: man therefore shall find grace, The first sort by their own transgression fell, lines 90–99Īnd here he explains why he will have mercy on humans and not on angels. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. He and his faithless progeny: whose fault?Īll he could have I made him just and right, Sole pledge of his obedience: so will fall, If him by force he can destroy, or worse,īy some false guile pervert and shall pervertįor man will hearken to his glozing lies, ![]() Here God explains why Satan is going to the new world: The Father and the Son notice Satan’s activities (lines 56–79), and then the Father speaks to the Son (lines 80–134), predicting man’s sin and explaining free will. Then we return to Satan, who has made his way to the new creation.īook 3 begins with a prologue in which Milton addresses again his Muse (lines 1–55), then he gets back to the story. (He even uses the term “fealty” at line 204.) The Son volunteers to receive man’s punishment, and the Father ordains the Incarnation. God will be gracious toward humans, and not toward the fallen angels, because man “fell not of his own malice, as did Satan, but by him seduced.” Milton presents a view of the Atonement largely cohering with Penal Substitution, as one would expect from an English Calvinist. There are a couple of interesting points here. The Argument shows that God knows exactly what Satan is up to, the success that he will have in tempting humans, and what will need to happen as a result. This book is the shortest so far (742 lines). ![]() Here we leave Satan and meet God and the Son, though we will return to Satan for the last third of the book. ![]()
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