[Milton-L] Abdiel, hypocrisy, temptation

[Sabrina Baron]

If Abdiel faced temptation and rejected it, he's stronger.  This is a  
parallel to Satan's temptation of Christ in the New Testament.  He  
listened to the offer, but then rejected it, showing he was a  
superior being.  If Eve had not succumbed to temptation, she should  
be in the same category.  "Yield not to temptation, for yielding is  
sin."

Sabrina Baron
University of Maryland