The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.