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"Under his feet: for proof, ere this thou feelst "Thy wound-yet not thy last and deadliest wound— "By this repulse received, and holdst in Hell "No triumph: in all her gates Abaddon1 rues

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Thy bold attempt. Hereafter learn with awe "To dread the Son of God: he, all unarmed,2 "Shall chase thee, with the terror of his voice, "From thy demoniac holds,3-possession foul,— "Thee and thy legions; yelling they shall fly, "And beg to hide them in a herd of swine, "Lest he command them down into the deep,

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Bound, and to torment sent before their time.— Hail, Son of the Most High! heir of both worlds! "Queller of Satan! On thy glorious work "Now enter; and begin to save mankind!”

Thus they the Son of God, our Saviour meek, Sung victor, and, from heavenly feast refreshed, Brought on his way with joy: he, unobserved, Home to his mother's house private returned.*

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1 Abaddon, the "destroyer," Apollyon in Greek; the angel of the bottomless pit. Rev. ix. 11. Here used of the bottomless pit itself.

2 All unarmed.-an intended contrast to the fine description of the Messiah driving the rebel angels out of heaven, Paradise Lost, b. vi. 1. 76. Compare also the brief relation of the refreshment ministered by angels, 1. 587-593, with the copious and embellished description of the banquet in b. ii. 1. 337-367. D.

3 Demoniac holds, the bodies of those who in the gospel history were said to be possessed with a devil. The Babylon of Revelation, xviii. 2, is called "the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit.” Yelling they shall fly, &c.-Matt. viii. 28-32.

He, unobserved, home to his mother's house private returned.-Dunster calls attention to the marked contrast between this very unadorned account of our Lord's return from his present victory, and the sublime passage in Paradise Lost, b. vi. 1. 880-892, describing his return after the expulsion of the rebel angels from heaven.

END OF PARADISE REGAINED.

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