He's actually claiming that this poem had been prophetic, that Lycidas foretold the ruin of the clergy.
他实际上是在声称这首诗是先知的,它已然预示了教会崩溃的必然。
Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.
弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职,的冷静确信开始写的,他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。
He is warned by the gods through seers,and by men of wisdom saying, don't investigate this question too far; you might be making a mistake.
诸神通过先知向他发出警告,身边的智者也向他谏言,不要太过深究这个问题,否则将铸成大错
And it is here that Machiavelli introduces his famous distinction between armed and unarmed prophets.
也就在这个论点上,马奇亚维利推出他的著名区别定义,介于武装与非武先知之间。
One the other hand, he was way in advance.
另一方面,他也算是先知先觉。
Their yell at the top of the world seems to Sal something that calls for a replacement; it calls for some other prophet to come walking ragged towards them and make them fall silent with his word.
他们在世界之巅的叫喊对Sal来说,似乎是在要求一个代替者;,需要另一个先知衣衫褴褛地朝他们走来,用他的话让他们安静。
He clearly recognizes that there are clear exceptions to his rule about armed prophets.
他清楚地体认到,关于其武装先知标准的,例外情事。
All the armed prophets," he says, " "conquered and the unarmed were ruined."
他说:,“所有的武装先知都会战胜,而非武者终将被消灭“
It is in these times, you might say, when individuals of extraordinary virtue and capacity, prophetic qualities, as he calls it in chapter 6, are most likely to emerge.
也就是在这些时期,当具有非凡美德与能力的个体,或说先知特质,如他在第,6,章所称,最有可能现身。
Does he not say that armed prophets always win, the unarmed prophets lose? Did he not say that he wrote to reveal the effectual truth of things and ? not just what people have imagined the case to be?
难道他没说过武装的先知总能取胜而,徒手的先知总是失败?,难道他没说过,他写作是为了揭示出事物的本来面目,证明事物并非人们幻想的那个样子?
But now he's able to tell us that he has already become prophetic.
但是现在他能够告诉我们他的确是具有先知能力的。
The conclusion reached in Book Three is that God has foreknowledge but he isn't interested in actual predetermination or some type of divine action that literally compels the behavior of human creatures.
卷三中的结论是,上帝享有先知,但是他对,实际意义上的预决或强迫着人类行为的,所谓神圣的做法并不感兴趣。
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