- Aug 2018
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Let none admire [ 690 ]That riches grow in Hell; that soyle may bestDeserve the precious bane
The "resource curse."
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but still his strength conceal'd,Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.
Sandbagging.
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in foresight much advanc't
Ironic, considering Satan is saying this from a place that had been prepared for rebels, in advance of any rebellion.
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dislike his reign, and me preferring
Why?
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till then who knewThe force of those dire Arms?
How could Satan aspire to be God's equal in glory if he didn't even assess God's strength?
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If he Whom mutual league,United thoughts and counsels, equal hopeAnd hazard in the Glorious Enterprize,Joynd with me once
Was Satan's intention to share his power sincere?
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Beelzebub.
The syllable "Sabu" crops up frequently in stories such as this. See, for instance, the Anonymous hacker-turned-FBI-informant who used that handle.
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Eternal Justice had prepar'd
If it was foreordained that some one(s) would rebel, to the extent that a prison was pre-built for them, can that be considered Justice?
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Sulphur
Where does the association of Hell with sulfur come from originally?
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To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
Several of Jesus's disciples argued about who would be first among them in the Kingdom of Heaven. By contrast with God in this poem, Jesus didn't punish these disciples for their ambition to sit "in Glory above [their] Peers," but taught them that whomever wanted to be first among them had to be like a servant to the rest.
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