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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 238, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bk IX, Pt XXV, "Temptation of Adam Pt A"
Description: Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk IX, Pt XXV, “Temptation of Adam Pt A” In the preface to Book IX, Milton presents the following abstract[Eve], pleased with the taste, deliberates awhile whether to impart thereof to Adam or not; at last brings him of the fruit; relates what persuaded her to eat thereof. Adam at first amazed, but perceiving her lost, resolves, through vehemence of love, to perish with her; and, extenuating the trespass, eats also of the fruit: the effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover their nakedness; then fall to...