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... tion . When Satan tempts Christ to use his powers as the Son of God , he tempts him to interact satanically , to respond as he would himself . Satan sees himself at war with heaven to possess and conquer earth . To win , he must draw ...
... tion . When Satan tempts Christ to use his powers as the Son of God , he tempts him to interact satanically , to respond as he would himself . Satan sees himself at war with heaven to possess and conquer earth . To win , he must draw ...
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... 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 " an empty cloud . " The prophecy that Christ will bruise the ...
... 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 " an empty cloud . " The prophecy that Christ will bruise the ...
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... tion of our humanitarian assumptions . The posture is familiar from critical response to Swift's work . Adverse reaction to the language and form of the novels , which occurs quite apart from an evalua- tion of their quality , is a ...
... tion of our humanitarian assumptions . The posture is familiar from critical response to Swift's work . Adverse reaction to the language and form of the novels , which occurs quite apart from an evalua- tion of their quality , is a ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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