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... Christ's final inwardness revealed by the barren wilderness he first inhabits , though it may mirror the unformed quality of his self - perception . The later temptations , which come to encompass all of earthly time and space , even ...
... Christ's final inwardness revealed by the barren wilderness he first inhabits , though it may mirror the unformed quality of his self - perception . The later temptations , which come to encompass all of earthly time and space , even ...
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... Christ this sense of temporal anxiety and threat . Though Christ's reign is to be " endless , " Satan argues that " The happier reign the sooner it begins " ( III , 178-79 ) . Fawning , he urges Christ to recognize himself matured " to ...
... Christ this sense of temporal anxiety and threat . Though Christ's reign is to be " endless , " Satan argues that " The happier reign the sooner it begins " ( III , 178-79 ) . Fawning , he urges Christ to recognize himself matured " to ...
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... Christ could be " A shelter and a kind of shading cool / Interposi- tion , as a summer's cloud " ( III , 221-22 ) , an obscuring haze pro- tecting selfhood from the light of God . But it is the serpent's head that will become at last ...
... Christ could be " A shelter and a kind of shading cool / Interposi- tion , as a summer's cloud " ( III , 221-22 ) , an obscuring haze pro- tecting selfhood from the light of God . But it is the serpent's head that will become at last ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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