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Reply. They could not because in the first instant the
angel operated under a special divine inspiration. Since
nothing is willed unless first known, the first cognition
was not from the application of the created will but from
the special inspiration of God, and under this influence
the creature does not sin. The angels sinned in the
second instant, in which they fully deliberated. The
third instant was the instant of damnation, in which there
was no longer any demerit or possibility of
merit.[1225]
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