Abraham

Also known as: faithful Abraham / patriarch · First appears: Book 12

Life events

• God calls Abraham from idol-worship and promises to bless all nations through his descendants.(Book12 · 📍 Ur of Chaldaea)
  • With: God
  • “Yet him God the Most High vouchsafes To call by vision, from his father’s house, His kindred, and false Gods, into a land Which he will show him; and from him will raise A mighty nation; and upon him shower His benediction so, that in his seed All nations shall be blest: he straight obeys;”

Book 12

• with God (God calls Abraham by vision.) “Yet him God the Most High vouchsafes / To call by vision, from his father’s house”
• with Son (The Deliverer is identified with Abraham’s promised seed.) “This ponder, that all nations of the earth / Shall in his seed be blessed: By that seed / Is meant thy great Deliverer”
• child: Isaac “so call the third / From Abraham, son of Isaac;”

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Extracted from the original text of Paradise Lost. Made with Rho MD.