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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 228 Milton's Paradise Lost Bk IX Pt XXII "Temptation of Eve Pt C"
Description: Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk IX, Pt XXIII, “Temptation of Eve Pt C” In the preface to Book IX, Milton presents the following abstractthe serpent, now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat, Eve innocently followed the serpent, not even considering that the serpent was guiding her to the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Up to this point the serpent had not revealed his real intent. He led her to think that it was the fruit of one of the many other tr...