" ... his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appears Less than Arch-angel mind, and the excess Of glory obscure." _Paradise Lost_, i. 591-593. Compare, too-- " ... but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek." Ibid., i., 600-602.] [98] [According to the Manichæans, the divinely created and immortal soul is imprisoned in an alien and evil body. There can be no harmony between soul and body.] [99] {218}[Compare-- "Let him unite above Star upon star, moon, Sun; And let his God-head toil To re-adorn and re-illume his Heaven, Since in the end derision Shall prove his works and all his efforts vain." _Adam, a Sacred Drama_, by Giovanni Battista Andreini; Cowper's _Milton_, 1810, iii. 24, sqq.] [100] {219}[Lines 163-166 ("perhaps" ... "sacrifice"), which appear in the MS., were omitted from the text in the first and all subsequent editions. In the edition of 1832, etc. (xiv. 27), they are printed as a variant in a footnote. The present text follows the MS.] [101] [According to the _Encyclopædia Biblica_, the word "Abel" signifies "shepherd" or "herdman." The Massorites give "breath," or "vanity," as an equivalent.] [by] _A drudging husbandman who offers up_ _The first fruits of the earth to him who made_ _That earth_----.--[MS. M. erased.] [bz] {220} _Have stood before thee as I am; but chosen_ _The serpents charming symbol_.--[MS. M. erased.] [102] {221}[_Vide ante_, "Preface," p. 208.] [103] {223}[Compare-- "If, as thou sayst thine essence be as ours, We have replied in telling thee, the thing Mortals call Death hath nought to do with us." _Manfred_, act i. sc. 1, lines 161-163, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 90.] [104] {224}[Dr. Arnold, speaking of _Cain_, used to say, "There is something to me almost awful in meeting suddenly, in the works of such a man, so great and solemn a truth as is expressed in that speech of Lucifer, 'He who bows not to God hath bowed to me'" (Stanley's _Life of Arnold_, ed. 1887, i. 263, note). It may be awful, but it is not strange. Byron was seldom at a loss for a text, and must have been familiar with the words, "He that is not with Me is against Me." Moreover, he was a man of genius!] [105] {226}["The most common opinion is that a son and daughter were born together; and they go so far as to tell us the very name of the daughters. Cain's twin sister was called Calmana (see, too, _Le Mistère du Viel Testament_, lines 1883-1936, ed. 1878), or Caimana, or Debora, or Azzrum; that of Abel was named Delbora or Awina."--Bayle's _Dictionary_, 1735, ii. 854, art. "Eve," D.]