...Luke 23:30, where Jesus warns the Daughters of Jerusalem of the terrors that will befall the ungodly: "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us." Milton applies this to the War in Heaven because Revelation 7 records how...

...ahead again to Good Friday and hear Jesus' words: "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never...