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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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Firm we subsist,

V. 359. Firm we subsist, &c. Faithful thô yet we stand, yet it is possible for us to stray. Subsistere, Lat. to stand, to keep ones ground. Swerve, Swerven, Belg. to go astray.

Hume, Patrick. “Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost wherein the texts of sacred writ, relating to the
poem, are quoted, the parallel places and imitations of the most excellent Homer and Virgil, cited and compared, all the obscure parts by P.H. ...” Bodleian Library 2(1695):321. Early English Books Online. Web. 16 October 2014
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IX.279 - IX.566

Related:  fervently,  Reason he made right,  For such thou art, from sin and blame entire:,  labour to avert,  But that thou shouldst my firmness therfore doubt,  Some Spacious object,  But God left free the Will, for what obeyes,  In narrow circuit strait'nd by a Foe,,  not free, absents thee more,  wouldst resent,  Vertue,  Alone,  Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare,  without exterior help sustaind?,  specious,  Eden,  done his part,,  guile,  surmise prov'd false,  And what is Faith, Love, Vertue unassaid [ 335 ],  Go; for thy stay,... (line 372-4),  Nothing imperfet or deficient left [ 345 ],  Access in every Vertue, in thy sight [ 310 ],  Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve,,  God or thee,,  the Patriarch of Mankinde,  Sticks no dishonor on our Front, but turns [ 330 ],  Faith,  Heav'n,  Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear?,  and still erect,,  domestick Adam,  Persisted, yet submiss,  single or combin'd.,  Reason he made right,  though last,  misthought,  asperses,  submiss,  Thou sever not:,  approve