Catalogue Entry: THEM00309
Book I: Chapter 9
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Milton employs the word elect in opposition to the apostate angels, in the description of the first battle in heaven:
..... but those elect
Angels, contented with their fame in Heav'n,
Seek not the praise of men: the other sort,
In might though wond'rous, —&c. Paradise Lost, VI. 374.
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Nor less think we in heav'n of thee on earth
Than of our fellow servant, and enquire
Gladly into the ways of God with man.
Paradise Lost, VIII. 224.
[3]
When the great ensign of Messiah blaz'd,
..... Michael soon reduc'd
His army, circumfus'd on either wing,
Under their head embodied all in one. VI. 775.
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Ye behold him, and with songs
And choral symphonies, day without night,
Circle his throne rejoicing. V. 161.
[5]
The tutelary care of angels is incidentally alluded to in Paradise Lost:
..... except whom
God and good angels guard by special grace. II. 1032.
Subjected to his service angel wings
And flaming ministers, to watch and tend
Their earthly charge. IX. 155.
Send me the angel of thy birth, to stand
Fast by thy side. Samson Agonistes, 1431.
..... some good angel bear
A shield before us. Comus, 658.
[6]
This is the interpretation of Grotius, Hammond, (who quotes from the Fathers in support of his opinion) Wolf, Doddridge, Pearce, &c. But Milton probably alluded to Tremellius, whose version he principally used, and whose note is as follows: 'Hujus autem rei testes sunt et observatores angeli in ecclesia Dei, ab externo ordine internam Dei gratiam et pictatum membrorum optime recognoscentes. Psal. xxxiv. 8. et xci. 11. Matt, xviii. 10. John i. 52. Eph. iii. 10. 1 Tim. v. 21. Heb. i. 14. 1 Pet. i. 12.' These seem to have been the 'numerous examples' referred to above.
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Th' Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the sev'n
Who in God's presence, nearest to his throne,
Stand ready at command, and are his eyes
That run through all the heav'ns, or down to th' earth
Bear his swift errands over moist and dry,
O'er sea and land. Paradise Lost, III. 648.
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Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince.
Paradise Lost, VI. 44.
[9]
So in the description of the first fight in Paradise Lost, which is borrowed from the prophecy in the Apocalypse quoted above, 'long time in even scale the battle hung,' till at last Michael, 'the prince of angels,' engages in single combat with the Adversary:
.... from each hand with speed retir'd,
Where erst was thickest fight, th'angelic throng,
And left large field. VI. 307.
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..... do him mightier service as his thralls
By right of war, whate'er his business be,
Here in the heart of hell to work in fire,
Or do his errands in the gloomy deep.
Paradise Lost, I. 148.
..... the spirits perverse
With easy intercourse pass to and fro
To tempt or punish mortals. II. 1031.
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So stretch'd 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 heav'n
Left him at large to his own dark designs.
Paradise Lost. I. 209.
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..... his doom
Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought
Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments him-. I. 52.
..... hope never comes
That comes to all. I. 66.
..... We are decreed,
Reserv'd, and destin'd to eternal woe;
Whatever doing, what can we suffer more,
What can we suffer worse ? II. 159.
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? IV. 73.
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The Stygian council thus dissolv'd, and forth
In order came the grand infernal peers:
Midst came their mighty Paramount-.
Paradise Lost, II. 506.
[14]
..... To whom th' Arch-Enemy,
And thence in heav'n call'd Satan. —I. 81.
..... the Adversary of God and man,
Satan-. II. 629.
High proof ye now have giv'n to be the race
Of Satan (for I glory in the name Antagonist of heav'n's Almighty King.)
X. 385. See also VI. 281,
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The tempter ere th'accuser of mankind.
Paradise Lost, IV. 10.
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..... who bids abstain
But our Destroyer, foe to God and man? IV. 749.