475. 2 Cor. iv. 15; Rom. v. 20.—(T.) 487. "Who shall dwell his spirit within them." There is much unnecessary criticism on these words. It is a classical structure and mode of expression. "Who shall dwell in spirit," or as to his spirit; Kaтa, or secundum, the spirit; or who, i.e. the spirit, shall dwell. Some commentators, however, say "dwell" here means, cause to dwell.
493. i. e. Not afraid of man even though he persecute them to death. See Psalm lvi. 11.—(N.)
498. See Acts ii. 4; Mark xvi. 17.(H.)
507. See Acts xx. 29.- (N.)
522, 523. i. e. Laws which are not conformable to the records of revealed religion, or the emotions of natural religion. -(H.)
526. So 2 Cor. iii. 17.-(N.)
527. Christians are called the temples of God, 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.-(N.) 540. " Respiration." avayugis, Acts
549. The notion of a new heaven and earth springing from the ruins of this world at its dissolution, Milton has often broached in this poem, iii. 333; x. 638; xi. 65, 900. It is also the opinion of some of the most orthodox divines, and of the most contemplative and learned. (See N.)
568. 1 Cor. i. 27.—(N.)
584. This is taken from St. Paul's noble description of charity, 1 Cor. xiii. 588. " Speculation," from specula, a
635. Hor. Epod. iii. 15:
"Nec tantus unquam siderum insedit vapor Saticulosa Apuliæ."-(R.)
640. " Subjected plain." Campum subjectum, the plain below. Subject and "subjected" are so used in the best old English poets.
643. " Flaming brand." "Brand" is
an old word for sword. Salanus Westmannus, in his dissertation entitled, Gladius Scythicus, pp. 6, 7, observes, that the ancients formed their swords in imitation of flaming fire; and thus from "brand," a sword, came our English phrase, to "brandish a sword," gladium strictum vibrando corruscare facere.(T., Wart.)
646-649. The passage has been the subject of much dispute. Pearce's explanation of the text is quite satisfactory. Though they were under the general guidance of Providence to keep them safe, yet their steps were "wandering," as they did not know any particular way to take; and though they obeyed the divine command, yet their steps were "slow" when they were quitting the boundaries of Paradise, on which they often looked back; and their way was now in reality "solitary," for though their walks in Paradise were solitary in some measure, yet there they had familiar and cheering objects; not so in their dismal journey to the outer world, which was strange to them, and comparatively desert. Addison thinks the poem, from the want of sufficient dignity in the last two lines, would better end with the two preceding, "the world," &c. I fully agree with those who would retain these last lines, as conveying a melancholy picture, quite in character with the condition of Adam and Eve, but would transpose them, and thus leave on the reader's mind the cheering persuasion that in their affliction, "Providence" was "their guide.”
AARON and Moses, their mission, xii. 170. A barim, i. 408. Abassin, iv. 280. Abbana, i. 469.
Abdiel (a seraph) opposes Satan, &c. v. 803. Reply to his answer, 877. His fidelity, &c. 896. Retreat from Satan's party, vi. 1. Soliloquy on view of him, 114. Speech, 130. Reply, 171. Encounters him, 189. Vanquishes Ariel, Arioc, and Ramiel, 369. Abel and Cain, xi. 429. Abjure, viii. 480. Abominations, i. 389. Abraham, xii. 113, 446. Abrupt, ii. 409.
Abstract, viii. 462.
Acanthus, iv. 696.
Accaron, i. 466.
Acheron, ii. 570. Actual, x. 587.
Adam and Eve, described generally, iv. 288; particularly, 295. Their inno- cence, 312, 492, 738; v. 211, 303; viii. 510, (vide INNOCENCE.) Orison, iv. 720; v. 153. Entertain the angel Raphael, 313, 391. Their nuptial bed, iv. 708. Nuptials, viii. 510. Parting preceding the temptation, ix, 385. Behaviour after, 1004. Naked, 1051. Reproach each other, 1187. Hide themselves from God, x. 97. Appear- ance before him, 109. Repentance, 1098. Expulsion from Paradise, xii. 625, (vide SIMILES.)
Adam, his discourse with Eve on the prohibition of the tree of knowledge, iv. 411. To her at night, 610. An- swer to her question about the nightly luminaries, 660. Viewing her sleep- ing, v. 8. Answer to her relating her dream, 94. To her weeping, 129. Discourse with the angel, 460. Con- tinued on various subjects to, viii. 651,
(vide RAPHAEL.) His creation and dominion, &c. ix. 524. Prohibited the tree of knowledge, vii. 542; viii. 332. Account of himself, &c. on his crea- tion, 253; of his first view of the Divine Presence, &c. 311. Speech to God, 357. Reply to God's answer, 379. Sleep on the formation of Eve de- scribed, 451. His first view of her, 481. Passion for her, 521. Discourse with Eve preceding the temptation, &c. ix. 205-384. Fears in her ab- sence, 838. Meets her returning with the forbidden fruit, 847. Soliloquy. 896. Resolves to die with her, 907, Eats the forbidden fruit, 996. Incites her to carnal fruition, (the first effect of it,) 1011, 1016; the place, &c. de- scribed, 1037. After-speeches to her, 1067, 1132, 1162. Answers to God (the Son), calling him to judgment, x. 115, 124. The sentence pronounced on him, 197. Soliloquy thereon, 720; continued, 854. Repulsory speech to Eve, 866. Relents towards her, 937. Resolves on submission to God's will, 1028. Speech to Eve (on the efficacy of prayer, &c.) xi. 140. On the omens preceding their expulsion, 193. On the view of Michael approaching, 226. Behaviour on receiving the message, 263. Speech to Michael thereon, 295. Resignation, 370. Discourse with Mi- chael, discovering to him in vision what should happen in the world till the flood, 450-867. Discourse with him, relating what should happen to the general resurrection, xii. 61–551. General reply to him, (resolutions of future obedience, &c.) 552, (vide EvE. MICHAEL. RAPHAEL. SIMILES.) Address, v. 868.
Adonis, i. 450; ix. 440. Adria, i. 520.
Alchemy, ii. 517. Alcides, ii, 542.
Alcinous, v. 341; ix. 441.
Aleian, vii. 15.
Altern, vii. 348.
Amalthea, iv. 278.
Amarant, iii. 352.
Ambition censured, ii. 482; iv. 86. Amerced, i. 609.
Amiral, i. 291. Amphisbæna, x. 524. Anarch, ii. 988. Andromeda, iii. 559.
Angels (celestial) obey God of choice, v. 535. Imbattled against Satan, vi. 15. Their march, v. 56. Engagement, vi. 202. Retreat, 597. Renew the fight, 634. Their song on the creation, vii. 180, 252, 557, 602. On its dissolution, x. 641. Guardians of Paradise, &c. iv. 778, 782, 861, 977; v. 287. Re- ascent to heaven on Adam's fall, x. 17. Appointed to expel Adam, &c. from Paradise, xi. 127. Descent there, vii. 208. Post assigned, viii. 220. March possessing it, &c. xii. 626, (vide GOD the FATHER and SON. SIMILES.) Guardians of mankind, ix. 152. Angels, (fallen,) their after-state, i. 50, 339. Numbers, 331; v. 743. Various pursuits, &c. ii. 528. Loss supplied by man's creation, iii. 677. Expulsion from heaven, 831-877. Transformed to serpents, x. 519, (vide SATAN. SI- MILES.)
Behemoth, vii. 471.
Belial, i. 290; ii. 108, 119; vi. 620. Bellerophon, vii. 18. Bellona, ii. 922. Bengala, ii. 638. Beryl, vi. 756. Bickering, vi. 766. Birds, vii. 417. Bizance, xi. 395. Boreas, x. 699.
Bosphorus, ii. 1018.
Bridge from hell-gates to the world over Chaos, the work, &c. described, x. 293. Brigades, ii. 532. Brinded, vii. 466. Broidered, iv. 702. Busiris, i. 307. Cadmus, ix. 506. Cæcias, x. 699.
Cain and Abel, xi. 429. Caravan, vii. 428. Career, i. 766; vi. 756. Casius, ii. 593.
Cassia, v. 293. Catarrhs, xi. 483.
Apostles, their mission, &c. xii. 439.
Gift of the Holy Ghost, 497.
Araby, iv. 163.
Architrave, i. 715.
Arctic, ii. 410.
Chaos, ii. 890; vii. 210; ii. 959. An-
swer to Satan's speech, 989.
since the angel's fall, 998.
589; xii. 615; ix. 357. Conjugal obedience, &c. iv. 635. Conjugal union, viii. 494; ix. 955. Conscience, iii. 194; iv. 23; x. 842; xii. 515, 529.
Constellations, their appearances, mo- tion, &c. iii. 577. Contraction, vi. 597. Cowls, iii. 490.
Creation, the universal, described, iii. 708; vii. 221.
Creatures, iv. 340; viii. 369; x. 707; xi. 733.
Crocodile, vii. 474. Crocus, iv. 701.
Cronian, x. 290.
Cyclades, v. 264. Cycle, viii. 84. Cyrene, ii. 904. Dagon, i. 457
Damasked, iv. 334. Dam, ix. 612. Damiata, ii. 593. Damned, ii. 596.
Damp, xi. 544. Danaw, i. 353. Daphne, iv. 273.
David, his throne why eternal, xii. 320. Day and night in heaven, vi. 4.
Death and sin, ii. 648; x. 249, 282, 326, 410, 585, 610, (vide SIMILES.) Death described, ii. 666, 688, 727, 777; x. 264, 596, (vide SIMILES.)
Death, natural, xi. 466-493, 469; xii. 425-434, 571.
Death, eternal, x. 808.
Deluge, universal, (vide NOAH.) Demogorgon, ii. 965. Descant, iv. 603.
Despair, iv. 108.
Devils, why excluded from grace, iii.
Earth, its general creation described, iii. 715; vii. 231; v. 574; vii. 276, 313; ix. 99. The centre of the creation, 107. Destruction by Noah's flood described, xi. 743. Restitution after it, xii. 852. An universal Paradise at the Messiah's coming to judgment, 463, (vide WORLD.)
Eden, the country bounded, iv. 210, (vide PARADISE.)
Egypt, the plagues of it described, xii. 173.
Elements, &c. subsist on each other, xi. 415.
Eve and Adam, (vide ADAM and EVE. INNOCENCE. SIMILES.)
Eve particularly described, characterised, &c. iv. 712; v. 379; viii. 470, 596; ix. 386-896; iv. 440, 449, 635; v. 27, 129, 443. Her formation, viii. 460, 500; ix. 205 to the end. The sentence pronounced on her; x. 192. Behaviour and speech to Adam's repulse of her, 909, 937, 966; xi. 162, 268; xii. 610, (vide ADAM. SIMILES.) Evening described, iv. 598.
Evil, in thought unapproved-blameless, v. 117.
Experience a guide to wisdom, ix. 807. Faith, ix. 1139.
Faith in Christ, xii. 420, 515, 529. Fame (or glory), xi. 688.
Fancy, its office, v. 100. The eye of the soul, viii. 460.
Fate, the will of God, vii. 170.
Fig-tree, of which Adam, Eve, &c. made aprons, described, ix. 1101. Firmament described, vii. 261. Fish described, 391.
Flaming sword in Paradise on Adam's, &c. expulsion thence, xii. 632, (vide SIMILES.)
Flood, universal, (vide NOAH.) Freedom, xi. 797.
Free-will asserted, iii. 95; v. 235, 520;
viii. 635; ix. 350; x. 43. Reason, the same, iii. 108; ix. 350. The image of God, viii. 440.
Fruition, carnal, the passion of it cen- sured, viii. 579.
Gabriel, iv. 443, 561, 576, 782, 866, 877, 902, 1006; vi. 45, 354.
GOD the FATHER, contemplating his works, &c. iii. 56. Speeches to, and re- plies from the Son, on Satan's design on the creation, 80-274. Decrees his resurrection, 303. His the Fa- ther's attributes, &c. 372. Visibly seen in the Son, 383; vi. 680. Charge to Raphael to warn Adam against his
fall, v. 224. Speech to the celestial hierarchy, 600. To the Son on Satan's, &c. revolt thereon, 719. Army against the revolters described, vi. 15. Speech to Abdiel, 29. Appoints Michael and Gabriel chiefs of the celestial army, 44. Appoints God the Son to end it, 680. Resolving the creation of the world, vii. 139. Commits the work to him, 163. Described, 594. Speech (the Father's) on the guardian angel's return from Paradise, x. 34, 55. Speech to the celestials on Sin and Death's entrance into the world thereby, 614. Charge to the angels, touching the changes in the creation on the fall, 649. Answer to the Son's intercession on Adam's repentance, xi. 45. Speech to the ce- lestials, convened at his decreeing his expulsion from Paradise, 84; to Mi- chael thereon, 99.
GOD the SON, at the right hand of the Father, iii. 62. Answer to him on Satan's design, iii. 144. On his pro- posing the manner, &c. of man's re- demption, 227; undertakes it, 236. Love to man, and filial obedience, 266. His resurrection, as God and man, decreed, iii. 303. His attributes, 383. Answer to the Father on Satan's,&c. re- volt, vi. 733. The image of the Father, iii. 383; vi. 680, 736. The Messiah, 718, 881. Answer to the Father, appoint- ing him to end the battle, 723, 730- 877. His person, equipage, &c. in the work of the creation described, vii. 192. Re-ascent to heaven after it, 550.
Institution of the Sabbath, 581. Appointed by the Father judge of Adam's transgression, x. 55. Sentence pronounced by him on the serpent, 163. Clothes them with skins, &c. 211. The justice of his sentence, 754. His intercession on their repentance, xi. 22, (vide MESSIAH.)
GOD, purity of adoration more acceptable
to him than ritual, iv. 736. All good proceeds from, and returns to him, v. 469. To be contemplated in the works of the creation, 508. Acts immediate, vii. 176. The centre of heaven, ix. 107. His absolute decrees, xi. 311. Omnipresence, goodness, &c. 335. The fear of him, &c., with loss of freedom, degenerates, 797. Particular presence, xii. 48. To obey, love, depend on his providence, &c., the sum of knowledge, 557; and wisdom, 575.
Gospel, how to be understood, xii. 511. Grace of God, iii. 129, 198; xi. 22; xii. 525.
Gunpowder, Guns, &c., the original in- vention ascribed to the Devil, vi. 478, 484.
Heaven and earth, their final renovation by fire, xi. 898; xii. 547. After-hap- piness therein, 463, 549.
Heaven, the joys, &c. of it described, iii.
344; its gate, 501; v. 253. Passage from thence to the world, iii. 526; its general creation, 716.
Hell described, i. 60, 228; ii. 587, 618; its gates, 645; first opened by sin, 871, (vide SIMILES.)
Hierarchies of heaven, v. 579. Hinnom, the valley of, i. 399. HOLY GHOST, its effusion, &c. at the creation, vii. 195. Descent, &c. on the apostles, and all baptized, xii. 485. Promised and given alike to all be- lievers, xii. 518. Hymn to light, iii. 1. ther and Son, 372.
To God the Fa- On conjugal love,
iv. 750. On the creation, vii. 180, 252, 557, 602. Hypocrisy, iii. 682. Hypocrites, iv. 121, 744.
Idolatry, the origin of it, i. 364; of the post-diluvian world, xii. 115.
Immortality of the soul discussed, x. 782. Innocence, the state of it described, iv. 312, 492, 738; v. 211, 303, 443; viii. 40, 510. Invocations, the author's, i. 6; iii. 51; vii. 1; xi. 20.
Jove, (a fallen angel,) i. 512. Israelites, their bondage and deliverance from Egypt, xii. 163; their civil and sacred economy in the wilderness, 223. Establishment in Canaan, 260. Rea- son, use, &c. of their ritual laws, 280. Government by judges and kings, 315. Captivity in Babylon, 335. Return from thence to the birth of the Mes- siah, &c. 345-359.
Isis, (a fallen angel,) i. 478. Ithuriel, iv. 788, 810. Knowledge of good and evil, the tree of it, iv. 220; ix. 626; ix. 575; vii. 542; viii. 343: ix. 679, 795, 863. Knowledge (or opinion), v. 100; vii. 126; viii. 188; xii. 560; viii. 192, (vide SIMILES.) Lethe, ii. 582.
Liberty, with the loss of it, virtue, &c. degenerates, xi. 797.
Life, the tree of, iv. 218; ix. 69. Light, hymn to it, iii. 1. The first day's creation, vii. 243.
Limbo, or fool's Paradise, iii. 495.
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