Paradise Lost - Book 4 - John Milton

Paradise Lost - Book 4 - John Milton
thanks to Kaila Vanderwielen for timecodes
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In Book 4 Satan connives his way to sleeping Eve's ear and whispers sweet betrayals. Why should eating from the tree of knowledge result in death? What is death? But, alas, he is busted. After confrontation and not backing down one step, he rushes off to try another way and day.
The narrator introduces us to Eden and our “Grand Parents.” Satan is detected spying on them and is expelled from the garden, after which God sends an angel to tutor Adam and Eve in the history of the heavenly war that has led to the present situation. At Adam's request, the heavenly guest then recounts the creation of the visible world, explaining also the proper nature of development, whereby all things proceed from lower to higher by refining that which nourishes them.
Satan, however, returning in the form of a snake, offers Eve an evolutionary shortcut in the form of a magical food capable of endowing her with super powers. He claims it has conferred on him both reason and speech. Since Eve is suffering at the moment from a fancied slight to her moral strength, she allows herself to forget her recent lesson and yields to this temptation. Adam, unable to imagine life without Eve (and failing to explore alternatives to sin), accepts the fruit from her and eats as well.
Satan’s triumph is short-lived, for although hell and the world of mankind are now linked by a broad highway, he and his followers are humiliated in hell by being turned involuntarily into snakes every year.

[@jacquelinewolf-xw8cs]

Thank you for sharing your gift. I have been listening to your amazing voice reading Milton's poem every morning for the last 6 months.

[@kailavanderwielen3588]

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[@ginalineti4995]

you are an angel in disguise.

[@rhondacurtiswaller3144]

Thomas Copeland's reading is amazing.

[@thepicklegambit6226]

Lots of enthusiasm with this one!

[@zavinullava]

This is a treasure

[@reginaldwashington204]

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[@cameronjeffries2284]

Note to self - stop @ 32:32 for end of reading assignment

[@jimmyjimjimmyjimjimjimjim4437]

How could Adam think God good when he didn't know good and evil? Line 414. In Milton's story God really sounds incompetent. He seems incapable of creating beings that do what he made them to do. Satan rebels, Gabriel has one job - to guard Eden - and he fails to keep out the one and only intruder, Adam and Eve disobey. God screws up creating man so badly that he has to wipe them off the face of the Earth and start over. How can an omniscient god make so many blunders? Is it because of free will? Couldn't God create a being with free will who is not only capable of choosing his own path but always makes the right choice because of his basic nature? I supposedly have free will and I choose to never torture small animals. Couldn't God make only people who will make the same choice? They are all free to choose to torture but none will.

[@reginaldwashington204]

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