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<blockquote data-quote="synopsis" data-source="post: 2631270" data-attributes="member: 763368">&quot;Till one Greater ManRestore us, and regain the blisful seat&quot;[1: 6]Milton&#039;s poem is quite clear that whatever damage might have resulted from The Fall, every human freedom was restored by the Incarnation (treated at length in Paradise Regained).Milton believes absolutely in human accountability, and in the Felix Culpa.(Robert Graves has a very interesting theory on why Milton is so committed to this doctrinal position).......As for Satan&#039;s freedom of action - in Book 1 and elsewhere - remember what Milton tells us at line 209:So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend layChain&#039;d on the burning Lake, nor ever thenceHad ris&#039;n or heav&#039;d his head, but that the willAnd high permission of all-ruling HeavenLeft him at large to his own dark designs,Adam&#039;s freedom of action (and consequently, human freewill) is repeatedly established in this poem. Satan&#039;s freedom of action is presented only with conditions, and ironically.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="synopsis, post: 2631270, member: 763368"] "Till one Greater Man Restore us, and regain the blisful seat" [1: 6] Milton's poem is quite clear that whatever damage might have resulted from The Fall, every human freedom was restored by the Incarnation (treated at length in Paradise Regained). Milton believes absolutely in human accountability, and in the Felix Culpa. (Robert Graves has a very interesting theory on why Milton is so committed to this doctrinal position). ...... As for Satan's freedom of action - in Book 1 and elsewhere - remember what Milton tells us at line 209: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, Adam's freedom of action (and consequently, human freewill) is repeatedly established in this poem. Satan's freedom of action is presented only with conditions, and ironically. [/QUOTE]

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