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[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

John Rumrich wrote:
 
"Angels are very intelligent, Milton believes, and they tend to understand phenomena intuitively, by sudden apprehension. But one might reply that Satan sits on top of the tree of life and doesn't understand it at all. Go figure."
 
Jeffery Hodges suggests:
 
But Satan is fallen and as God's adversary can now think only in purely adversarial, instrumental ways. He might still be capable of reasoning intuitively, as an angel, but we see him reasoning discursively, asking himself questions and seeking answers. Perhaps he is clever -- a high IQ sort of guy -- but Milton portrays him as lacking genuine insight.
 
Jeffery Hodges
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