...mee" (3:105-11). Requirement is rather a call, a vocation, from God to man, freely to obey and serve: "I made him just and right, / Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall, / Such I created all th' Ethereal Powers / And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild" (3:98-101). Raphael, in...

...foreknowledge of man's Fall. The following is its core passage. So will fall He and his faithless Progeny: whose fault¿ Whose but his own¿ Ingrate, he had...them who failed; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith...

...transgress the sole command, Sole pledge of his obedience; so will fall, He and his faithless progeny: whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of...right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. (LM 3.80-99) The Father's punning parodies the way Satan reanimates his world by objectifying his own...

...Satan, and painfully exposed as too good for mankind by Adam and Eve: Such I created all the ethereal powers And spirits, both them who stood and them who failed; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith...

...Council by exonerating Himself from any responsibility for the Fall, claiming from the beginning that "I made him just and right, / Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall" (3:98-99). Asserting that He endowed Adam with free will and sufficient reason, the Father distinguishes...

...So will fall Hee and his faithless Progeny: whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of mee All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. [...] They therefore as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Thir maker, or thir...

...So will fall, Hee and his faithless Progenie: whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of mee All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. (11. 93-9) Critics sympathetic with Milton's theology and dramaturgy still worry about the way his...

...to tempt Adam and Eve. The passage includes God's justification of his own role in humanity's fall. “Whose fault? / Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me / All he could have” (iii.96—8). God sounds a bit peevish and self-righteous, but Puritans would have found God's view...

...this context it is possible that Coleridge has in mind the lines John Milton has God speak about Adam: "I made him just and right, / Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall" (Paradise Lost Bk III 11. 98-9). jam demónstrala: "already demonstrated". 5817 37.48 J44 "I fiad fainted......

...command, Sole pledge of his obedience: so will fall, He and his faithless progeny: whose fault? Whose bus his own? ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient so have stood, though free so fall. Such I created all she ethereal powers ioo And spirits, both them...