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Rh Of God Most High: so God with Man unites. Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. Say where and when Their fight, what stroke shall bruise the victor's heel."
 * To whom thus Michael:—"Dream not of their fight,

As of a duel, or the local wounds Of head or heel. Not therefore joins the Son Manhood to Godhead, with more strength to foil Thy enemy; nor so is overcome Satan, whose fall from Heaven, a deadlier bruise, Disabled not to give thee thy death's wound; Which he, who comes thy Savior, shall recure, Not by destroying Satan, but his works In thee and in thy seed; nor can this be, But by fulfilling that which thou didst want, Obedience to the law of God, imposed On penalty of death; and suffering death, The penalty to thy transgression due, And due to theirs which out of thine will grow; So only can high justice rest appaid. The law of God exact he shall fulfil, Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law; thy punishment He shall endure, by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death;