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The Mortalist Heresy in ‘ Paradise Lost '
Author(s) -
Campbell Gordon
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
milton quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1094-348X
pISSN - 0026-4326
DOI - 10.1111/j.1094-348x.1979.tb00085.x
Subject(s) - thou , paradise , heresy , paradise lost , debt , history , art , theology , philosophy , art history , economics , finance
In Book III of Paradise Lost Christ accepts his mission to redeem mankind with the words Though now to Death I yield, and am his due All that of me can die, yet that debt paid, Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsom grave His prey, nor suffer my unspotted Soule For ever with corruption there to dwell. 1