Milton's setting in Paradise Lost is very religious because the epic is about the fall of the angels and the fall of man. Milton uses the reference of the Nile in order to reveal religious implications. The Nile has been the center of Egypt and most of the stories that take place there, for example the Exodus and the life of Moses. Satan is compared to Moses in order to exemplify the power Satan had over his minions. Moses exhibited a great power when he cast a number of plagues on the impious Pharaoh's Egypt.