Sin
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2.The fall of the angels and of man
2a.Satan's rebellion and pride
See also: War and Peace 1d
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 140Rebellion against the Maker is the source of all misery.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 407Part of the Angels fell through the accursed pride of Lucifer.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Proœmium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio MagnaVol. 39
- p. 126–128Fall came from proud desire of moral knowledge to judge good and evil, and lust of power felled the angels.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 214–216Pride and rebellion against God caused the fall; damned spirits suffer deprivation of heaven.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 258–259Lucifer's schism and tempting of Eve show sin's communicable nature.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 90Revolt against Heaven and its consequence, the fall and exile of millions for his fault.read · scan
- p. 155Satan confesses that pride and ambition caused his fall and that repentance is barred by disdain and shame.read · scan
- p. 170Zephon says Satan's glory departed when he was no more good.read · scan
- p. 180Some angels fell by disobedience from Heaven to Hell.read · scan
- p. 180Satan's pride and impious rage, with pardon offered if besought in timeread · scan
- p. 204Satan sits exalted as a god, idol of majesty divine, in proud rebellionread · scan
- p. 204Michael accuses Satan of instilling malice and rebellion in once-faithful angelsread · scan
- p. 204Disobedience brought the rebels fear, flight and pain; the saints' innocence keeps them invulnerable.read · scan
- p. 216Spirits of purest light grown gross by sinning, pained by crushing armour.read · scan
- p. 220Sin has impaired the rebels' original equality; their doom is suspended.read · scan
- p. 300–303The rebels share the penalty as accessories in his crime.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 138Man created holy fell into pride, wanting to be his own centre, and was abandoned to himself.read · scan
Walter Bagehot, John MiltonVol. 28
- p. 205The poem's scheme rests on Adam's disobedience and the heavenly rebellion against an arbitrary edict.read · scan
2b.The forbidden tree and the temptation of Eve
See also: Rhetoric 7a · Knowledge 8d · Animal 9a
Paul, The Second Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 527–528Corinthians' minds risk corruption as the serpent beguiled Eve.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 262Dante chides Eve's hardihood in refusing restraint of the veil, which lost joys that would have been his from the first.read · scan
- p. 280Robbing the forbidden tree is blasphemy against God; Adam's taste of it brought longing for thousands of years.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 398Adam explains his exile came not from tasting the tree but from transgressing the mark assigned him.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 185The tale of Eve's fall and Cain's murder of Abel is told through the branch and the tree.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 87Man's disobedience and loss of Paradise, tempted by Satan in the Serpent.read · scan
- p. 88Man's first disobedience for one forbidden tree, seduced by the Serpent, brings death and loss of Eden.read · scan
- p. 135Man offended God by aspiring to Godhead, seduced by Satan, and is devoted to death.read · scan
- p. 136Man will hearken to Satan's lies and transgress the sole command, so he and his progeny fall.read · scan
- p. 136Man disobeying breaks his fealty, affecting Godhead, and forfeits all; his treason requires expiation.read · scan
- p. 227The tree of knowledge is forbidden; death is the penalty, so Adam must govern appetite lest Sin surprise him.read · scan
- p. 249God forbids the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as pledge of obedience, warning of death and expulsion.read · scan
- p. 260Argument of the Fall: Satan tempts Eve, she and Adam eat the forbidden fruit and then accuse each other.read · scan
- p. 261Narrator laments hapless Eve who will return despoiled of innocence while the Fiend lies in ambush.read · scan
- p. 261Satan, disguised as serpent, begins the fraudulent temptation of Eve with flattering address.read · scan
- p. 261Satan's guileful flattery and false story begin Eve's temptation.read · scan
- p. 261The serpent leads credulous Eve to the Tree of Prohibition, root of all our woe.read · scan
- p. 261The Tempter seduces Eve into disobeying God's single prohibition on the fruit.read · scan
- p. 261–278Eve is tempted and persuaded by Satan's guile, her longing grows, and she prepares to disobey.read · scan
- p. 278Eve plucks and eats the fruit, the Fall, and nature groans in woe.read · scan
- p. 278–281Eve tempts Adam with the fruit; his horror at the fatal trespass follows.read · scan
- p. 281Adam confronts Eve's transgression and resolves to share it.read · scan
- p. 281Adam eats knowingly, overcome by female charm; Earth and Nature groan at the second transgression.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 237–238Eve's apple shown, by which she and Adam were expelled from Paradise; sin is amazing.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 81–84Mephistopheles quotes the serpent's promise 'ye shall be like gods' as sure to bring the student a sick heart.read · scan
Walter Bagehot, John MiltonVol. 28
- p. 201–202Man's state results from the defenseless first pair yielding to Satan.read · scan
2c.Shame, blame-shifting and the consequences of the fall
See also: Exploration 6d · Life and Death 10d
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 258–260Man through his own defect fell from Paradise and exchanged unblamed laughter and delight for bitter sorrow.read · scan
Martin Luther, Concerning Christian LibertyVol. 36
- p. 360–361Adam and Eve's fall frames how works would have been free had they not sinned.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 39–40Disproportioned Sin broke the original harmony of creatures with their Lord; prays for renewal.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 129Sin unlocks Hell's gates, the sad instrument of all woe, letting evil out into the world.read · scan
- p. 155Shame at nakedness is called sin-bred, banishing simplicity and innocence from life.read · scan
- p. 281The completing of Original Sin; nature weeps, and the pair are first intoxicated, then stripped of innocence.read · scan
- p. 281Adam laments the fall: innocence, faith and purity lost, and shame and foul concupiscence gained.read · scan
- p. 281Each shifts blame for the transgression onto the other.read · scan
- p. 290–291The Argument recounts Man's transgression, Sin and Death's passage to Earth, and the call to repentance.read · scan
- p. 291Angels learn of Satan's success in perverting Eve and Adam; they deserved to fall for disobeying.read · scan
- p. 292Adam and Eve appear guilty, ashamed and hiding from God after the Fall, showing anger, despair and guile.read · scan
- p. 292Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the Serpent; each confesses the eating of the forbidden tree under shame.read · scan
- p. 292Adam's offence of hearkening to his wife and eating the tree brings the curse.read · scan
- p. 292Sin personified, with her son Death, feels drawn to follow Satan and pave a path to the new world.read · scan
- p. 297Sin and Death build the causeway that makes the world forfeit to Death.read · scan
- p. 297–300Satan sends Sin and Death to make Man their thrall and then kill him.read · scan
- p. 300Satan boasts of seducing Man by fraud with an apple, delivering the world to Sin and Death.read · scan
- p. 304Man's folly let in destructive furies; his sin polluted the pure world until Sin and Death are sealed in Hell.read · scan
- p. 304Sin's daughter Discord and Death introduce outrage into creation.read · scan
- p. 319Sin distempered all things; the sinful pair are banished without remorse.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 131–132Man's fall from his place.read · scan
- p. 138–139Man's fall set creatures in revolt; lust and blindness have become his second nature.read · scan
- p. 200–201Man fell from communion with God into sorrow and estrangement; repeated debauchery and idolatry mark the ages.read · scan
- p. 203Man has fallen from communion with God and is estranged from Him.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 332Death is imposed as penalty for sin and purges concupiscence.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 43–44Coat given to cover his nakedness and shame.read · scan
- p. 264–266Death and the curse came by a woman, yet so did life through the Saviour born of a woman.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Preface to Poems (1815)Vol. 39
- p. 307–309Nature weeps and groans at the completion of the mortal sin of Adam.read · scan
2d.Allusions to Adam and Eve as a recurring pattern
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 175The serpent that gave Eve the bitter food comes into the valley, repelled by angels.read · scan
- p. 242The tree grown from the one Eve tasted warns against approaching it.read · scan
- p. 272–275The forest is void because of Eve's blame, and the tree of Adam's sin is stripped bare; appetite was warped to evil there.read · scan
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's TaleVol. 40
- p. 44Woman's counsel brought Adam from paradise.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 330–331The fall of the angel and the first man illustrates the infirmity that lapses into sin.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 316–317Adam, not Cain, was first murderer, bringing in death and seeing it in his son.read · scan
John Milton, AreopagiticaVol. 3
- p. 201Man brings impurity into the world; Adam's tasting of the apple gave knowledge of good by evil.read · scan
John Milton, Tractate on EducationVol. 3
- p. 236Learning repairs the ruins of our first parents.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise RegainedVol. 4
- p. 371Satan recalls the fall of Adam and Eve as precedent and fears this enemy will not fallread · scan
- p. 371The banquet is compared to the apple that diverted Everead · scan
Andrew Marvell, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 370–372The luckless apple made us mortal and laid the paradise isle waste.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 215Adam witnessed the promise of a Saviour after the fall; the deluge as a miracle of judgment.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 232–233Matthew's gripes of conscience come from eating fruit of Beelzebub's orchard, forbidden fruit that has killed many.read · scan
- p. 266–267Sin, not apples, defiled our souls; forbidden fruit corrupts, but eating what is commanded does good.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 214Contemplates first parents' disobedience and God's continued fatherhood.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 56–58Epitaph recalls Adam fooled by woman, woman ruled by devil.read · scan
James Hogg, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 756–757Kilmeny is pure as pure could be and has seen a land where sin has never been.read · scan
- p. 757–758Kilmeny is the sinless virgin found in a thousand years; she is taken from the snares of men that she may never know sin or death.read · scan
- p. 763Scene is likened to Eve in a sinless world; sorrows of man pass away.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, CharacteristicsVol. 25
- p. 320Loss of paradisaic unconsciousness alluded to through Adam and the Fall.read · scan
Thomas Hood, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 905–908Urges charity toward her 'slips' and stains, one of Eve's family.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 280The prince laments Eve and Adam's eating the forbidden fruit, believing he would have avoided bringing sin into the world.read · scan
- p. 285–286No man has been in Paradise since Adam and Eve.read · scan
- p. 288–289The Prince sees the Tree of Knowledge, the serpent and Adam and Eve, recalling the fall.read · scan
Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic PrincipleVol. 28
- p. 385–387Pleads not to scorn the stains of the fallen woman, one of Eve's family.read · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 369–372Mildred feels she has sinned to suffer; asks why sin glided like the snake into the paradise meant for the lovers.read · scan
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