Analyzing Satan's Second Warning By Raphael

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First, Raphael warns Adam that although humans are created perfect, they are not immutable in lines “that thou art happy, owe to God;/ that thou continu’st such, owe to thyself…God made thee perfect, not immutable;/ And good he made thee, but to preserve/ he left it in thy power.” (520-521, 524-526, V) By revealing Satan’s rebel and his punishment, Raphael suggests that similar consequences will befall humans if they do not obey God’s only order, and hence it is important to resist temptation. Raphael’s second warning centers around the proper limit of knowledge in lines “knowledge is as food, and needs no less/ her temperance over appetite, to know/ in measure what the mind may well contain,/ oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns/ wisdom