ecause of love, he partakes of the fruit also. The effect is immediate as they now show their nakedness, and are blaming each other for this error that the have made.Book Ten mans fall is now known, and God sends His Son to judge Adam and Eve. When He sees them, he feels sorry for them, places clothes on them, then returns to heaven. Saran returns to Pandemonium, triumphant about his success. When the assembly receives him, they are all along with Satan changed into snakes. God then relates his plan where His son will eventually triumph over Satan. A promise is also made that the serpent will now forever be the lowest of creatures and that Eves offspring will forever be revengeful.Book Eleven The son of God presents to his Father the prayers of our first parents now repenting, and intercedes for them; God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a band of cherubim to dispossess them but to reveal to Adam future things. (Knopf, 1996) Book Twelve is the conclusion of Gods plan for Adam and Eve, how their offspring will eventually lead to the promised One who will die for all their transgressions. Michael relates to them the history of the world to come and finally the Second Coming. This comforts them. Michael then takes them by the hand and leads them out of Paradise. The world was all before them, where to chooseTheir place of rest, and providence their guide;They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow,Through Eden took their solitary way. (Paradise Lost, lines 646-649)Works Published in his LifetimeWorktime: Comus (performed 1634; published 1637) [masque], Lycidas (1638) [a pastoral elegy on the death of a fellow student, Edward King], Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (1641) [an antiprelatical tract], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643) [a tract arguing for the legality of divorce], Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of ...
