Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because ?

Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because ?

A. the prediction is never fulfilled.
B. the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.
C. Samson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
D. the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon

Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of “Paradise Lost” that that goal of his epic poem will be ?

Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of “Paradise Lost” that that goal of his epic poem will be ?

A. to justify the ways of God to humankind.
B. to justify the ways of humankind to God.
C. to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.
D. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.