1. Anne-Marie Dubarle Op, Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000), 47.

2. John Milton, “Paradise Lost” The Major Works including Paradise Lost, eds. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), bk. I, line 26.

3. J. Allen Mitchell, “Reading God Reading ‘Man’: Hereditary Sin and the Narraivization of Deity in Paradise Lost, Book 3” Milton Quarterly 35.2 (2001): 72.

4. Henri Blocher, The Biblical Doctrine of Original Sin Translated By: E.M. Stewart. (New York: Herder and Herder, 1964), 18.

5. Blocher, 18.

6. Dubarle Op, 48.

7. Blocher, 18.

8. Dubarle Op, 81-82.

9. Milton, bk. II, lines 747-760.

10. Robert B. White Jr., “Milton’s Allegory of Sin and Death: A comment on Backgrounds” Modern Philology 70.4 (1973): 340.

11. Blocher, 38.

12. John Erskine, “The Theme of Death in Paradise Lost” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 32.4 (1917): 576, and Blocher, 20.

13. White, 338.

14. Mitchell, 77.

15. Elbert N.S. Thompson, “The Theme of Paradise Lost” PMLA:Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 28.1 (1913): 114-115

16. Mitchell, 72.

17. C.S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961), 132.

18. Lewis, 130.

19. Mitchell, 72.