The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (207 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
6209
a certain (substantial)
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6211
young bull, bull calf
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6213
Nimrod (“hunter”): see Genesis 10:8–10
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6214
cast out, get rid of
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6215
peace, harmony
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6216
contempt, scorn
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6220
determine, decide
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6221
the Tower of Babel: see Genesis 10:10 and 11:1–9
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6222
differing, unstable
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6223
erase, obliterate, sweep away, destroy
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6225
discordant, babbling
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6226
rage, complain
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6227
i.e., the act of building,
not
the structure being built
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6228
“babble” (Babel)
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6231
stops, remains
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6233
waste, pain
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6234
starve to death
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6236
notwithstanding
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6237
capture, seize, snatch
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6238
authority, direction
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6240
Ham, father of Canaan
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6241
see Genesis 9:22–27
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6242
depraved, corrupt, malignant
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6243
special, singular
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6246
deigns, condescends
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6247
immediately
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6248
west of the Euphrates and south of Babylon; the Chaldeans, a Semitic tribe, had migrated to southern Babylonia
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6249
east of the Euphrates, in northwestern Mesopotamia
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6250
those in servitude: servants
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6251
Shechem, a city in central Palestine, north of Jerusalem
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6252
in Syria, on the River Orontes
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6253
Mt. Hermon, to the north: the highest peak in Palestine
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6254
the Mediterranean
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6255
in Haifa, now in Israel
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6256
double-sourced
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6257
landmark, boundary, border
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6259
see I Chronicles 5:23
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6261
crush, smash, break
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6263
due time = in the time that, properly, it should take
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6267
to lodge, to dwell temporarily
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6269
scarcity, famine
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6270
subsequent, following
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6271
(1) occupant, (2) stranger, foreign
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6272
[bisyllabic]
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6274
enslavement
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6276
not poured out from bodies
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6277
thrusting/forcing in
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6281
cover, bulge with
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6283
turn, sweep
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6285
potent, obvious
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6287
not long before
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6290
his former guests, the Jews
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6294
take away, clear off, disappear (make disappear)
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6295
unyielding, hardened in evil, insensible to moral influence
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6296
prevents, wards off, prohibits
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6297
in the space between the two groups, Egyptians and Jews
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6300
shatter, smash, break
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6301
in battle formation
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6302
troops, soldiers
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6303
[adjective]
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6304
of the Red Sea
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6305
quickest, shortest, most direct
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6306
penetrating
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6307
thus called to arms
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6309
not experienced (as the Canaanites definitely were) in war
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6310
lead/send them
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6311
“not trained (or, by implication, not having anything to do with) weapons and armor (warfare), unless people are drawn on (led on) by reckless impetuosity”
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6312
create, initiate, begin building
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6313
council of seventy elders, chosen by Moses: see Exodus 24:1–9
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6314
derived from the twelve sons of Jacob
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6319
smash, crush
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6320
narrate, tell, speak
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6321
image, emblem
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6323
coffer, chest
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6325
mercy-seat of gold = golden covering
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6326
the ark? God Himself?
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6327
i.e., one lamp for each of the seven known planets
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6328
see Joshua 10:12
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6330
subdue, overcome
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6332
expose, reveal, show
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6333
(1) insubstantial, (2) foreshadowing (Christ)
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6336
verification, i.e., freeing (justifying) man from the penalty of (original) sin, man being thus made righteous
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6337
outward rites
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6338
carry out, execute, accomplish
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6339
(1) can be plainly seen, shown, (2) is declared
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6341
confidently yield themselves up to
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6342
trained, educated
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6348
tell, declare, relate
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6352
“added (heaped) to the sum (total: large) of the people’s (the popular) faults”
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6353
as to = so as to make Him
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6355
the Babylonian Captivity, 606–536
B
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C
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6356
bearing in mind
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