Paradise Lost

Even if most people in this world are not Christians, I believe they have heard the story of Adam, Eve, and the Garden of Eden. In fact, it was the famous British poet John Milton in the 17th century who truly gave the simple narrative content of only 500 words in the "Old Testament" to majestic language and twists and turns and bizarre plots, and turned it into an epic masterpiece. This masterpiece is called "Paradise Lost". John Milton (1608-1674) is one of the six greatest poets in the history of British literature. His blank verse epic "Paradise Lost", Homer's "Homer's Epic" and Dante's "Divine Comedy" ("The Most Classic English Library" has been published in three volumes) are known as the three major Western poems. The epic poem "Paradise Lost" describes the storyline: the devil Satan escaped from the dungeon and came to the Garden of Eden established by God for the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve, and tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Their ignorance and depravity provoked the wrath of God. In anger, God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The actions of the two of them became the origin of mankind's original sin, which led to death, pain, famine, and plague on the earth. However, God did not kill them all, but gave mankind the opportunity for redemption and sent Jesus Christ for redemption, so that mankind could return to paradise through tenacious faith and sincere repentance.