You will notice that my initial query was directed at an assertion made by a particular poster who was not the author of this piece.
While "the consideration here" may well be "the active role of evil in the lives of men here on earth", I asked a question of an entirely different nature to a poster other than the author.
Sorry if you had difficulty following along.
Sorry? Me too.
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor—one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same
. . . Here at least/ We shall be free . . .
we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.John Milton, Paradise Lost (I:251-263)