A major portion of Paradise Lost is narrated by the angel Raphael. He begins his story with a celebration in heaven. In the chronology of PL, and even possibly the Bible, this can be said to be the earliest recorded event--before the creation of the world, and before the war in heaven.
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Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
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God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
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6"I've put my king on Zion, my sacred hill." 7I will tell the promise that the LORD made to me: "You are my son, because today I have become your father.
Long ago in many ways and at many times God's prophets spoke his message to our ancestors. 2But now at last, God sent his Son to bring his message to us. God created the universe by his Son, and everything will someday belong to the Son. 3God's Son has all the brightness of God's own glory and is like him in every way. By his own mighty word, he holds the universe together. After the Son had washed away our sins, he sat down at the right sidea of the glorious God in heaven. 4He had become much greater than the angels, and the name he was given is far greater than any of theirs. 5God has never said to any of the angels, "You are my Son, because today I have become your Father!" Neither has God said to any of them, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son!" 6When God brings his first-born Son into the world, he commands all of his angels to worship him. |