Book XII — The Creation of Angels, Time, and the Origin of Evil
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1. _That the nature of the angels, both good and bad, is one and
the same._
It has already, in the preceding book, been shown how the two cities
originated among the angels. Before I speak of the creation of man,
and show how the cities took their rise, so far as regards the race
of rational mortals, I see that I must first, so far as I can, adduce
what may demonstrate that it is not incongruous and unsuitable to
speak of a society composed of angels and men together; so that there
are not four cities or societies,--two, namely, of angels, and as
many of men,--but rather two in all, one composed of the good, the
other of the wicked, angels or men indifferently.
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