From all this, it will readily occur to any one that the blessedness which an intelligent being desires as its legitimate object results from a combination of these two things, namely, that it uninterruptedly enjoy the unchangeable good, which is God; and that it be delivered from all dubiety, and know certainly that it shall eternally abide in the same enjoyment.
We believe the holy angels do have this blessedness; and still it is impossible that the angels which became evil could have had the same certain blessedness. So one should have to hold that the holy angels received this certain blessedness only later, unless one holds that they were unequal from the beginning. Or one could advocate that the angels which became evil refused the obidience to God from the beginning and therefore never received any blessedness.
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