to the process whereby the heavenly angels not only eat food but they also digest it; and Milton lets us know, whether we want to know or not, how those angels actually excrete the food they have taken in.

去描述天堂的天使不只吃食物而且要消化它的过程,弥尔顿让我们知道，不管我们想不想，这些天使怎样排泄出他们吃的食物。

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It goes without saying that these are questions that it's impossible for us to try to answer certainly now, but Milton lets us know later in Paradise Lost that Satan was wrong to embark on his dangerous deconstruction of divine power.

毫无疑问，这些问题,我们现在无法给出确切回答，但弥尔顿后来在《失乐园》中告诉我们，撒旦,想要毁灭神权力量的危险行动是错误的。

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