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/. 3. p. 3. Recover'd Paradife ]
It may feem a little odd that Milton (hould impute the recovery of
Paradife to this fhort fcene of our Saviour's life upon earth, and not ra-
ther extend it to his agony, crucifixion, &c. But the reafon no doubt
was, that Paradife, regained by our Saviour's refilling the temptations
of Satan, might be a better contrail to Paradife, IJl by our firft parents
too eafily yielding to the fame feducing fpirit.
Befidcs he might, very
probably, and indeed very reafonably, be apprehenfive, that a fubje