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..... the fruit

Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste

Brought death into the world,and all our woe.

Paradise Lost, I. 1.

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The divine denunciation is interpreted in the same sense in Paradise Lost:

.... my sole command

Transgress'd, inevitably thou shalt die,

From that day mortal; and this happy state

Shalt lose, expell'd from hence into a world

Of woe and sorrow. VIII. 329.

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..... innocence, that as a veil

Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gone,

Just confidence, and native righteousness,

And honour, from about them, naked left

To guilty shame. Paradise Lost, IX, 1054.

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See p. 77. note. And again; —'For there are left some remains of God's image in man, as he is merely man'-. Tetrachordon. Prose Works, II. 124.

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Ad asserendam justitiam Dei. Milton introduces the Latinism in his Paradise Lost:

That to the height of this great argument

I may assert eternal Providence,

And justify the ways of God to men. I. 24.