Milton's alluding to what he took to be the divinely inspired prophesy of Saint John the Divine that ends the New Testament.

弥尔顿的暗示是从,圣约翰的布道中启发的,他是那位完结了《新约》的神学家。

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As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.

尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失，这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一，的壮志的终点，他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。

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