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man to till the ground

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014. 

man to till the ground. Gallagher points out that Milton removes the discrepancy between Genesis 1:11-3 and Genesis 2:5-7 about the creation of vegetation (whether it was made before or after Man's creation) by having it created on the third day but not having it grow because there was no man to till the land, and no rain yet to make things grow
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