John Donne: Poems

Explain the line from John Donne’s Religious Sonnet II And Satan hates mee, yet is loth to lose me.

Explain the line from John Donne’s Religious Sonnet II
And Satan hates mee, yet is loth to lose me.

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Satan is never anybody's friend. He hates all people but the paradox is that he hates to lose people. He gets his power from luring people's souls away from God. 

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