[Milton-L] RE: Samson as suicide bomber

[Michael Gillum]

Omitting the prayer suppresses the element of personal vengeance that is
featured in the source text. We can't know Milton's intent, but I suspect he
thought that motive unworthy and tending to reduce the dignity of his
tragedy.

Milton was a bold interpreter of scripture. He may have thought that God's
motives in the incident should be separated from Samson's. Omitting the
prayer removes an interpretive cue as to God's purposes and leaves us
guessing.

Michael


On 5/19/09 2:53 PM, "James Rovira" <jamesrovira at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even if we know
> what Samson is praying, what does it mean that we don't hear the
> prayer?