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C.S. Lewis on Condescension

The Great Divorce (Simon & Schuster: 1946), 121.

Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend — man can sympathize with a horse but a horse cannot sympathize with a rat. Only One has descended into Hell.