To The Pure All Things Are Pure

Abstract

Returning to Milton, Professor Fish addresses the relation between faith and interpretation, unwritten and written law, in certain key passages.

Keywords:

• Milton
• faith
• Samson Agonistes
• marriage
• divorce
• interpretation

Notes

1. Complete Prose Works (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), 6: 639.

2. 2 Cor. 3:3.

3. See Complete Prose Works , supra note 1, at 2:543.

4. Id. at 564.

5. Id. at 563.

6. See Complete Prose Works, supra note 1, at 6:640.

7. Id. at 583.

8. Id. at 587.

9. Id. at 587.

10. Id. at 588.

11. Id. at 589.

12. Milton, A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (London, 1659), 9

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13. See Complete Prose Works , supra note 1, at 6:589.

14. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Complete Prose Works, supra note 1, at 2:245–46.

15. Id. at 265.

16. Id. at 276.

17. Id. at 276.

18. Id. at 281.

19. Id. at 282.

20. See Complete Prose Works, supra note 1, at 2:678.

21. The Prose of John Milton, ed. J. Max Patrick (New York: Anchor Books, 1967), 183.

22. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, trans. D. W. Robertson (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs Merrill, 1958), 93.

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23. See Complete Prose Works, supra note 1, at 2:307.

24. Id. at 277.

25. Id. at 280.

26. Id. at 279.

27. Id. at 584–85.

28. George Herbert, “The Elixir,” The Works of George Herbert, ed. F. E. Hutchinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941), 184.

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29. See Complete Prose Works , supra note 1, at 1:873.

30. Id. at 894.

31. Id. at 941–42.

32. Milton, Paradise Regained, in The Poems of John Milton, ed. John Carey & Alastair Fowler (New York: Norton, 1972), bk. IV, line 343.

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33. Id. at line 359.

34. Id. at line 347.

35. Id. at line 344.

36. See Milton: The Complete Shorter Poems , ed. John Carey (London and New York: Longman, 2007), 1:890.

37. See Complete Prose Works , supra note 1, at 6:521.

38. Id. at 526.

39. Id. at 526–27.

40. Id. at 532.

41. Id. at 533.

42. Id. at 535.

43. Id.

44. See Complete Prose Works , supra note 1, at 1:221–23.

45. Id. at 216–17.

46. Id. at 221–22.

47. Id. at 231.

48. Id. at 223.

49. Id. at 1320–21.

50. Id. at 1381–83.

51. Id. at 1377–79.

52. Id. at 1384.

53. Milton, Paradise Lost, in Poems, supra note 32, at bk. XII, lines 647–50.

54. Id. at lines 585–87.