Satan, the Heroic

" He spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
Far round illumin'd hell: highly they rag'd
Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped Arms
Clash'd on their sounding shields the din of war,
Hurling defiance toward the Vault of Heav'n."
--excerpt from John Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)

no wonder his word is so seductive.