argument collapses, which is a result of "syntactic units becom[ing] smaller and increasingly antithetical, ending in the hopeless oppositions of 'except' and 'never'" in the final lines. Bellette, who describes this process of argumentative dissolution, notices that it resembles what is happening in another Holy Sonnet, "As due by many titles I resign." Lines eleven through fourteen In the last four lines, the speaker wants God to divorce him from Satan ("untie, or break that knot"), and take him prisoner. Just as in the first four lines of the poem, an instance of the Calvinist conversion theme can be observed here. This motif has been noted by Stachniewski, who observed that the "Calvinist conversion involved God's simultaneous and irresistible seizure of all the faculties." Accordingly, the speaker’s situation can only be resolved by the divine rape. Military and amorous interpretations The speaker uses two paradoxical descriptions to characterize his relationship with God: being enthralled but still free, and being ravished but still chaste. It has been argued that both statements are applicable to both the military and the amorous interpretation. Ribes, who makes this argument, suggests that in the military interpretation, the only solution for a town to be free is to enthrall it, which in this case would mean physically bringing it into bondage. Following this example, the amorous interpretation further supports the idea of the speaker using the point of view of a woman, who can be free only if God enthralls her, which would here mean enslaving her emotionally. Ribes then states that "[t]he woman can only be chaste if God ravishes her." The double meaning of the verb "to ravish" provides grounds for a twofold interpretation. The earthly and more common meaning of the verb would be "to rape"(OED) or "to carry away by force," and it can be instantly connected to the amorous interpretation, where the relationship between the speaker and God is very physical and sexual. The second meaning, more spiritual and theological, would be "to fill with ecstasy or delight"(OED). According to Stachniewski, the conclusion is that the second meaning of "to ravish" can describe the soul's spiritual seduction, which again establishes the importance of the role of God in salvaging souls. Like in other Sonnets (such as "Wilt thou love God as he thee" or "As due by many titles I resign"), paradoxes and the use of linguistic contradictions suggest that God