Paradise Lost and Regained
[The angel answered], "Dream not of their fight
as of a duel, nor [physical the] wounds
of head or heel: [these do not] join the Son
human to Godhead, with more strength to foil
your enemy. Nor so is [Satan killed,]
whose fall from Heaven, [deadlier a] bruise,
disabled not to give you your death's wound,
which [Christ], who comes your savior, shall [repair],
not by destroying Satan, but, [in you
and in your seed, destroying Satan's works.]
....
[Triumphing] o'er his foes [will Christ] surprise
the Serpent, Prince of Air, and drag in chains
through all his realm, and there confounded leave.
Then Christ will enter glory, and resume
his seat at God's right hand, exalted high
above all names in Heaven; then shall come
when this world's dissolution shall be ripe.
as of a duel, nor [physical the] wounds
of head or heel: [these do not] join the Son
human to Godhead, with more strength to foil
your enemy. Nor so is [Satan killed,]
whose fall from Heaven, [deadlier a] bruise,
disabled not to give you your death's wound,
which [Christ], who comes your savior, shall [repair],
not by destroying Satan, but, [in you
and in your seed, destroying Satan's works.]
....
[Triumphing] o'er his foes [will Christ] surprise
the Serpent, Prince of Air, and drag in chains
through all his realm, and there confounded leave.
Then Christ will enter glory, and resume
his seat at God's right hand, exalted high
above all names in Heaven; then shall come
when this world's dissolution shall be ripe.
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII (1674).
Full text: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_12/text.shtml
See also: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+12%3A7-17
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