...proposed Benevolent and facile thus replied.0 To ask or search I blame thee not, for heaven Is as me book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous...days, or months, or years: This to attain, whether heaven move or earth, 70 Imports not, if thou reckon right, the rest From man or angel the great architect...

...her still in sight. And Raphael now to Adam's doubt propos'd Benevolent and facile thus repli'd. 65 To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav*n Is as the Book of God before thce set, 36. sumless: immeasurable. 64. doubt propos'd: question raised. 37. incorporeal, as applied...

...to observation and not the other way around.1* Thus before chastising Adam, Raphael reassures him: To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n Is as...the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his woiul'rous Works. (8.66—68) Here Milton offers his readers a compact lesson in design arguments....

...concerns thee and thy being" (172—4). However, Raphael begins that same speech by assuring Adam that "To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n / Is as the Book of God before thee set" (66—7). And the narrator, Milton himself, ambiguously laments the blindness that makes one mode of...