In Book 10 during Satan's speech there is a line "I am to bruise his heel;/ His seed (when is not set) shall bruise my head" (10. 498-9). I thought this line was important because it seems like Milton is referencing Achilles by making it God's heel that Satan believes he has injured. However, by Satan saying that he merely bruised God's heel it shows that that God has not really been wounded. This quote also shows that Satan believes that mankind is God's weakness.
This quote is also important because it shows that Satan knows that the Son will take a mortal form in order to save mankind from sin, although he does not know when. This is shown because he says that God's seed, the Son, will bruise his head which is where Sin was born from.
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