Chapter 6 argues that Milton’s priorities in Paradise Regained are moral rather than Christological or political. The chapter applies this thesis to some enduring critical questions around the poem: the question of the Son’s identity, the purpose of the temptation, and the nature of the poem’s outcome; lastly it shows how Satan is like a Washington lobbyist. The consequence of this reading is to make Paradise Regained appear at once simpler and more demanding. The poem makes strenuous moral demands upon its readers, not because its messages are esoteric but because it calls them to follow the example of the Son.