Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King

Paradise Lost

How does milton justify the ways of God to man?

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In the opening of Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his Muse, the Holy Spirit, to grant him “Eternal Providence” that he may achieve his goal for the epic: to “justify the ways of God to men” ( 25- 26). Milton believed in a God that was infinite, eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

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