Out of Context

I do not have my own copy of Volume 1 of The Raven Edition of The Works of E.A.P.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Complete Poetical Works
Edited by John H. Ingram

Al Aaraaf
Edgar Allan Poe

Footnote 10: And golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the saints.–Rev. St. John.

Footnote 11: The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having really a human form.–Vide Clarke’s Sermons, vol. I, page 26, fol. edit.

The drift of Milton’s argument leads him to employ language which would appear, at first sight, to verge upon their doctrine; but it will be seen immediately, that he guards himself aginst the charge of having adopted one of the most ignorant errors of the dark ages of the Church.–Dr. Sumner’s Notes on Milton’s Christian Doctrine.

This opinion, in spite of many testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He lived in the beginning of the fourth century. His disciples were called Anthropomorphites.–Vide du Pin.

Among Milton’s minor poems are these lines:

Dicite sacrorum præesides nemorum Dese, etc.,
Quis ille primus cujus ex imagine
Natura solers finxit humanum genus?