The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems

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by John Milton; Burton Raffel


  7148 weapons

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  7149 convinced

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  7150 affording a wide view

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  7151 i.e., either “native” or “hospitable” to those not native

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  7152 (1) niche, coastal indentation, (2) privacy

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  7153 public park northwest of Athens

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  7154 secluded place

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  7155 nightingale

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  7156 mountain near Athens

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  7157 river running from Mt. Hymettus south into the sea

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  7158 Aristotle

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  7159 developed, produced (as Alexander’s tutor)

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  7160 park east of Athens

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  7161 Athenian colonnade, with painted frescoes, where Zeno the Stoic taught

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  7162 measures, rhythms: the term was used both in music and in poetry

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  7163 attained

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  7164 Aeolic: Greek dialect used by Sappho, Alcaeus, and others

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  7165 songs

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  7166 (1) the Doric dialect of Greek, (2) the choral lyric poetry written in that dialect (as, e.g., by Pindar, who was himself a speaker of the Boeotian dialect)

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  7167 “born in/of Meles”: the River Meles, in Asia Minor, was one of Homer’s supposed birthplaces [five syllables, first, third, and fifth accented]

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  7168 Apollo

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  7169 claimed

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  7170 iambic trimeter, used in dramatic scenes

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  7171 wisdom

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  7172 full of wisdom

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  7173 make one’s way, go, resort

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  7174 ruled, commanded, controlled, directed

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  7175 Athenian harbor building, construction of which was suspended in 339 B.C. because of Demosthenes, 384–322, famous Athenian orator

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  7176 thundered

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  7177 region between Balkans and Greece: famous for Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great

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  7178 Persian king; on Sparta’s side in the war against Athens

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  7179 dwelling

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  7180 sweetly flowing

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  7181 given an additional name, title, or epithetic description

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  7182 Aristotle and his pupils were peripatetic (“walking about”)

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  7183 Epicurus and his followers

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  7184 consider, meditate upon

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  7185 inadequate

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  7186 even if

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  7187 acknowledged, admitted

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  7188 Socrates

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  7189 Plato

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  7190 Pyrrho, Sceptic founder

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  7191 Epicurus

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  7192 disdaining

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  7193 wishes, desires

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  7194 stratagems, contrivances

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  7195 claim, assume

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  7196 whoever

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  7197 as if they were

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  7198 select, of special excellence

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  7199 eraser

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  7200 like

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  7201 Hebrew

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  7202 sprinkled, spread

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  7203 impersonating, playing the part of

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  7204 means of adornment/embellishment, veneer, paint

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  7205 Satan

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  7206 in those cases where

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  7207 politicians

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  7208 used up, exhausted

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  7209 fussily

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  7210 massive, copious

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  7211 utter, discourse

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  7212 whip lashes

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  7213 foretell

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  7214 perceive distinctly

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  7215 guides, gives directions

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  7216 instructive red-lettered text printed in prayer book margins

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  7217 sullen, dark

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  7218 absolute, entire

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  7219 calm, patient

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  7220 excursion, journey

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  7221 severely, very much

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  7222 flowing together, meeting

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  7223 either Tropic: both circles of the celestial sphere

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  7224 premature

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  7225 falling

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  7226 equivalent

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  7227 agitated

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  7228 roots extending as far into the earth as the tree extends into the air

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  7229 completely

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  7230 covered

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  7231 stopped

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  7232 undismayed

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  7233 hood with gray fur, worn by clerics

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  7234 caused to subside

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  7235 horrible, ugly

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  7236 make trial of

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  7237 effective

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  7238 i.e., clearly sounded/uttered/brought forth

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  7239 twig, shoot, slender branches

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  7240 welcome, greet, give thanks for

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  7241 plan, trick, stratagem

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  7242 encounter, meeting

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  7243 (1) relaxed, calmed, (2) determined

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  7244 outrage [noun]

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  7245 his usual

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  7246 unconcerned, artless

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  7247 befalls

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  7248 storming

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  7249 gusts, blasts

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  7250 the larger universe

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  7251 i.e., the human body

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  7252 harmful, injurious

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253 point to, mark

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  7254 directed

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  7255 time, period, occasion

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  7256 exerted influence

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  7257 assault

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  7258 ill-omened

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  7259 portents, omens

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  7260 rage

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  7261 in what degree = at what level/rank

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  7262 parley

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  7263 agreement, treaty

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  7264 examine

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  7265 disdained

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  7266 winged beast, half horse, half griffin (head and wings of an eagle)

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  7267 lofty

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  7268 a large building

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  7269 need, demand, call upon

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  7270 lineage

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  7271 knock, strike

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  7272 see Psalms 91:11–12 and Matthew 4:5–7

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  7273 son of Poseidon and Gaia (earth)

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  7274 in North Africa

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  7275 Hercules

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  7276 defeated

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  7277 stood to see = stood intending/hoping to see

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  7278 sphinx

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  7279 i.e., the riddle

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  7280 a river

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  7281 struck

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  7282 celebrations

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  7283 a compact body of persons

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  7284 wings

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  7285 Jesus

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  7286 difficult, uncomfortable

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  7287 standing place, position

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  7288 joyous, well-pleased

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  7289 restored, renewed, mended

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  7290 weakened, injured

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  7291 hymns

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  7292 temporary dwelling

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  7293 endowed, supplied

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  7294 expel, vanquish

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  7295 dispossessed

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  7296 streets, roads

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  7297 hell

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  7298 [noun]

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  7299 destroyer, slayer, conqueror

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  7300 alone, unseen

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  7301 contestant, actor, champion (of God)

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  7302 authoritative, important

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  7303 modify, moderate [verb]

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  7304 bring to, change, restore

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  7305 right, proper, correct

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  7306 lacking

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  7307 operative influences, accomplishments

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  7308 medical science/art/practice

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  7309 physical/mental states

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  7310 from

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  7311 now considered to be by Menander rather than Euripides

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  7312 David Pareus, 1548–1622, German Protestant theologian

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  7313 i.e., (1) act, (2) chorus, (3) act, (4) chorus, etc.

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  7314 in the time

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  7315 a state governed by an absolute ruler/dictator

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  7316 d. ca. A.D. 389; he probably was not the author of Christ Suffering

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  7317 stage plays, usually comic

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  7318 seriousness

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  7319 [noun]

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  7320 meter

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  7321 having no stanzaic patterning

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  7322 at that time

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  7323 important

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  7324 having stanzas (strophes) of varying form

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  7325 created?

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  7326 extended

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  7327 i.e., that which is

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  7328 organization, management

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  7329 arrangement, ordering

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  7330 narrative, story

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  7331 boundary, limit

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  7332 nearby

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  7333 withdrawn

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  7334 form, compose

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  7335 as much as

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  7336 i.e., then visited

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  7337 in addition

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  7338 follow up on, pursue

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  7339 attempt

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  7340 in front of

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  7341 exercise

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  7342 tribe of Dan (Manoa and Samson’s tribe), northwest of Judah

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  7343 ridge, elevation

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  7344 accustomed, in the habit of

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  7345 enslaved

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  7346 imposed on

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  7347 breathe

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  7348 unhealthy

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  7349 flow, current of air

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  7350 improvement

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  7351 (1) draw breath, (2) recover

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  7352 Philistine national god

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  7353 hard-work-requiring

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  7354 ignorant/irrational/false belief

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  7355 permission

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  7356 plebeian, common, general

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  7357 unvisited, uncrowded

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  7358 crowding, pressing

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  7359 [verb]

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  7360 development, training, education

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  7361 special

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  7362 work laboriously

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  7363 brass, brasslike, as strong as brass

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  7364 chains, shackles

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  7365 assigned compulsion

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  7366 building containing machinery (here water-driven) for processing, manufacturing, etc.
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  7367 except

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  7368 defect, failure, guilt

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  7369 robbed, stripped

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  7370 clumsy, awkward

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  7371 confident

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  7372 be subordinated

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  7373 wields

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  7374 ordering, management

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  7375 (1) probably, (2) appropriately

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  7376 goals, purposes

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  7377 curse, poison, slayer, ruin

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  7378 demand, call for

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  7379 ended, destroyed

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  7380 (1) silent, (2) always

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  7381 every, any, all

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  7382 see Genesis 1:3

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  7383 (1) first, beginning, (2) primary

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  7384 empty, destitute of life/activity

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  7385 in which the moon was thought to hide between its old and new phases

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  7386 relegated, fastened

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  7387 visible

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  7388 extinguished, destroyed

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  7389 at will = at pleasure/choice

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  7390 tomb, burial place

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  7391 susceptible, amenable, exposed

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  7392 two or more

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  7393 steps

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  7394 sprawled, spread out

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  7395 slack, feeble

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  7396 clothes

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  7397 garments

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  7398 in battle formation

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  7399 (1) forging, (2) invention

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  7400 brass

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  7401 upper-body armor

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  7402 from the Black Sea region, famous for their metalworking [four syllables, second and fourth accented]

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  7403 tunic, upper garment

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  7404 too strongly to be resisted/endured (“supported”)

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  7405 thrust, struck, trampled

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  7406 Ascalon: ancient Philistine port city

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  7407 rearing and raging

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  7408 twisted, writhed, bent, reversed

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  7409 covered with layer(s) of metal

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  7410 dirtied, fouled, polluted

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  7411 whatever

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  7412 common

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  7413 unlike the Jews, the Philistines were not circumcised

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  7414 the suffix “lechi” = lifting up/casting away of the jawbone: see Judges 15:14–17

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  7415 mighty

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  7416 Gaza

 

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