[Milton-L] Query: Adam's 'Heroic' Self-Sacrifice for Love?

[James Rovira]

Probably giving you sources you're already aware of, but CCEL is a
pretty good site, and books.google.com.

Jim R

On 8/26/07, Horace Jeffery Hodges <jefferyhodges at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, the reasoning from 1 Tim 2.14 is present in Milton and also in sermons
> paralleling Milton, as you note. I've even heard such sermons twice in my
> life (once at about 12 years of age, another time just a week ago).
>
> Milton, however, seems to present Adam as already 'falling' in his reasoning
> even before he accepts the fruit, and his act is interpreted as that of one
> "fondly overcome with Femal charm" (PL 9.999), so I'd suggest that Milton
> presents Adam's 'heroic' self-sacrifice as due to lower motives.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions on the Church Fathers. I'll have to find a way to
> do that efficiently from here in Korea.
>
> Jeffery Hodges
>