343 "But Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call, "His name and office bearing, who shall quell "Through the world's wilderness, long wander'd man "Meanwhile they, in their earthly Canaan plac'd, 66 Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when1 sins "National interrupt their public peace, Provoking God to raise them enemies; "From whom as oft he saves them penitent, 2 "For ever shall endure; the like shall sing "But first, a long succession must ensue : "Part good, part bad; of bad the longer scroll; efficacy of the divine injunction, repeated the stroke. Numb. xx. and xxvii. But Millon treating the history as typical, represents Moses as debarred by reason of the imperfection of his human nature, and not from any particular act, from the privilege of leading the chosen race to the happy promised laud. Jesus is called Joshua, Acts vii. 45, and Heb. iv. 8. The names are the same in Hebrew and Greek. 1 I. e. Except (or unless) when. » Here and in the next eight lines the commentators say Milton has digested (he substance of the following texts of Scripture, Gen. iii, 15; xxii.lt; j Sam. vii. i6; Psalın lxxxix. 31—36; Isaiah xi. 10; Luke i. 32, 33.- H., N.) • It is not staled that he saw them; he only heard a part of the angel's narration. He could not see Abraham, v<28,) though he saw places, (142, 158.) Abraham had net then existed, but those places had; whereas Babylon was not built for many years after. We must not therefore understand the expression literally; for verbs o! teeing are often extended beyond the bare act, and are applied to other senses and other faculties of the mind. (See N.) 377 "There in captivity He lets them dwell "The space of seventy years; then brings them back, "To David,1 'stablished as the days of heav'n. "Their lords, whom God dispos'd, the house of God "In mean estate live moderate, till, grown 4 "The Power of the Most High: he shall ascend "The throne hereditary, and bound his reign "With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens! Surcharg'd, as had like grief been dew'd in tears, "0 prophet of glad tidings, finisher "Of utmost hope! now clear I understand "(What oft my steadiest thoughts have search'd in vain) l Jer. xxxlii. 20; Psalm Ixxxix. 39.—(T.) * See Ihe first book of Esdras for an account of the restoration of the temple after lha seventy years' Babylonish captivity. "Re 3 It was chiefly through the contests of Jason and Menelaüs, high priests, that the temple was polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes, ( see 2 Maccab. v. and Pridiaux.) "They seize the sceptre." Arislobolus, eldest son of Hyrcanus the high priest, was the lirst who assumed the title of king after the Babylonish captivity; before Christ 107. gard not David's sons." None of that family having had the government since Zerubbabel. "Then lose it to a stranger." To Herod, who was an ldumæan, in whose reign Christ was born. See Josephus and Prideaux.-(N.) As if sent on a solemn embassy.—(B.) En. i. 287:— "Imperlum oceano, famam qui termtnet aftris."(H.) See Psalm ii. 8; Isaiah ix. l.—'Jl., Up(.) 410 "Why our great Expectation should be call'd "Dream not of their fight "As of a duel, or the local wounds "Of head or heel: not therefore joins the Son "Satan, whose fall from heaven (a deadlier bruise) "On penalty of death, and suff ring death— "And due to theirs which out of thine will grow : "So only can high justice rest appaid. 7 6 "The law of God exact he shall fulfil "He shall endure, by coming in the flesh 66 Proclaiming life to all who shall believe "In his redemption; and that his obedience, 66 Imputed, becomes theirs by faith; his merits 8 "To save them, not their own (though legal) works. l Luke i. 28.—(Gti.) "Capital" is here used in the Latin sense, from caput the head. A comma placed after the word "disabled," in Todd's and other editions, render! the passage quite incomprehensible. But remove the comma, and the passage will be quite plain. "Whose fall from heaven did not disable him from giving Adam his death's wound." * Remedy. 5 See 1 John iii. 8.—(N.) G Satisfied, repaid. 7 So Rom. xiii. 10.—(B.) 8 This passage has puiiled the commentators. Beniley proposes to read "do save them." Pearce says "the only sense 1 can make of it is this, which redemption and obedience are hii merili to save them, and not their own works, though legal ones, and conformable to the law.'" Newton says the verb "believe" governs the rest nf the sen 447 "For this he shall live hated; be blasphem'd; 66 "But soon revives; death over him no power "Neglect not, and the benefit embrace 5 By faith not void of works. This god-like act "Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength, 66 Defeating sin and death, his two main arms; "And fix far deeper in his head their stings "Than temporal death shall bruise the victor's heel, "Nor after resurrection shall he stay 66 Longer on earth, than certain times to appear "Still follow'd him; to them shall leave in charge ence, "proclaiming life to all who shall believe in his redemption; and shall believe (hat his obedience, imputed, becomes theirs by Faith; and shall believe his merits to save them, not their own, though legal works." Another critic, of no small note, though anonymous, in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xlviii. p. 466, proposes to read "merits " with an elision. "Merit's," t. e. hit merit it to (or must) save them. No doubt there are many instances of this elision and mode of writing in all poetry. But is it called for here? i Alluding to Col. ii. li.—(N.) Rom. vi. a; Rev. i. 18.—(Gil., T.) "Sleep" implies that we shall awake, "death" that we shall rise again to life. In some late editions the compound "deathlike" was improperly introduced.—(T.) 488 "Salvation shall be preach'd, but to the sons "Then to the heaven of heavens he shall ascend 66 Through all his realm, and there confounded leave; "Then enter into glory, and resume "His seat at God's right hand,* exalted high "With glory and power to judge both quick and dead— "0 Goodness infinite, Goodness in mense! "By me done, and occasion'd; or rejoice "Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring—■ "To God more glory-more good-will to men "From God; and over wrath grace shall abound. "But say, if our Deliv'rer up to heaven "Must re-ascend, what will betide the few The promise of the Father, who shall dwell 4 "His Spirit within them; and the law of faith, i Gal. iii. 7; Bom. iv. 16.—(T.) » Eph. i. 20.—(H.) 32 Cor. iv. 15; Rom. v. 20.—(J.) There is much unnecessary criticism on these words. It is * classical structure and |