The influence of this _Hebrew_ spirit is clearly visible in John Milton’s (1608‒1674) poetry. “Paradise Lost,”¹ the most glorious cosmological epic of the world’s literature, could have been written only by a man who knew the Bible by heart, and whose verse, when he so chose, could consist simply and solely of combinations of texts from the Bible or images influenced by Biblical ideas. The way in which he tells his stories, the elevation of his style, the music of his verse, changing from the roar of the hurricane and the tramp of bannered hosts to the hum of bees and the song of birds, the numerous gem-like phrases and passages which are sure to be quoted for all time――all these wonderful qualities are Biblical. Milton knew _Hebrew_, and his verse is throughout inspired by the genius of that language. And the spirit which found voice in Milton caused England to take the lead in bringing about religious liberty. This recognition of righteousness and fair play among the nations of the world benefited not only the Jewish nation: some months before Manasseh Ben Israel visited England, the Commonwealth had made a most vigorous protest against the outrage on humanity perpetrated by the persecutors of Protestants in Piedmont. ¹ Paradise Lost. | A | Poem | Written in | Ten Books | By John Milton | Licensed and Entered according | to Order. London | Printed, and are to be sold by _Peter Parker_ | under _Creed_ Church neer _Aldgate_; And by | _Robert Boulter_ at the _Turks Head_ in _Bishopsgate-street_; | And _Matthias Walker_, under St. _Dunstons_ Church | in Fleet-street, 1667. (_4to._ Title page + A‒Z + AA‒V in 4 _s._) In 1871 a version in the Holy Language was issued:―― Milton’s Paradise Lost In _Hebrew_ Blank Verse. Translator J. E. S.... שיר יסודתו בכתוב ויגרש את האדם נחלק לשנים עשר ספרים ... ומתורגם יהודית בשפה ברורה ובחרט כתבי הקודש י,ע,ס ...‏ (8º. 4 _ll._ + 351 _pp._). “The second English edition, 1674, was divided in _twelve_ books.” Twenty-one years later a free _Hebrew_ rendering was published, under the following title:―― תולדות אדם וחוה ... נעתק חפשי לשפת עבר ... ע״י שמואל בן משה ראפאלאוויץ נדפס פעה״ק ירושלים תובב״ה בשנת תרנ״ב לפ״ק Milton’s Paradise Lost. Translated in _Hebrew_ by Samuel Raffalovich, _Jerusalem_, 1892. (8º. 63 _pp._)