Note 207 — BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE (Continued) (continued 3)
Henri Van Laun translation
When Raphael comes on earth, the angels who are "under watch, in honour rise." The disagreeable and characteristic feature of this heaven is, that the universal motive is obedience, while in Dante's it is love. "Lowly reverent they bow.... Our happy state we hold, like yours, while our obedience holds."