[Milton-L] Justify God?

[Sanford Blackburn]

The line/lines are rhetorical and simply support his larger satiric/analytic/anthropological project. Pursuing this project is what Milton "wants" to do. If this project represents some kind of "justification," so be it, though such language is rather purple, if you take my meaning.  I'd rather say he is trying to push aside superstition, orthodoxy and custom, and point out a few obvious things about language to help the schoolboys along their way.
 
I hope I haven't given away any secrets here?
 
Carter Kaplan
 



Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:52:53 -0700From: jefferyhodges at yahoo.comSubject: [Milton-L] Justify God?To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu




As everyone knows, Milton gives this reason for composing Paradise Lost:
 

That to the highth of this great ArgumentI may assert Eternal Providence,And justifie the wayes of God to men. [PL 1.24-26]
 
(Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2008.)
 
Why does Milton want to justify God's ways to men?
 
Jeffery Hodges
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