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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 4 Podcast 36 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XI, Pt XXXVI, “The Intercession, Pt I”
Description: Season 4 Podcast 36 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XI, Pt XXXVI, “The Intercession, Pt I” In the prologue to Book XI, Milton writes.The Son of God presents to his Father the prayers of our first parents now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a band of Cherubim to dispossess them; but first to reveal to Adam future things: Michael's coming down. Adam shows to Eve certain ominous signs; he discerns Michael's approach; goes out to meet him: the Ange...