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PARADISE LOST by John Milton, Book 11, Part 3

As book ten ended, Adam and Eve were bowing in worship and sincere repentance to God for their failures, so book eleven opens with heaven's response, God's grace in His Son, offering Himself as "advocate and propitiation," so that:

my merit those shall perfect ... till death, his doom ... to better life shall yield him; where with me all my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss; made one with me, as I with thee am one.

Thus the breaking of relationship accomplished in sin and Fall is restored in the Son. But the Father declares that the Pair must leave Eden, for "longer in that Paradise to…

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