所有的天使,神从来对哪一个说,你是我的儿子?
天使回答说,我是站在神面前的加百列,奉差而来,对你说话,将这好信息报给你。
And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
我们不知道,但有人在传授关于天使和神的故事,这位作者反对它。
We don't know, but there's some kind of stories about either angels or gods that some people are teaching, and this author is writing against it.
They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.
事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现,或者作为异教的神被提及,弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。
Mulciber fell long before Homer because Mulciber fell long before the creation of the earth -- and it's Milton, and it's no other poet before Milton, who's finally able to set the record straight. Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.
莫西伯在荷马出世前就堕落了因为,他早在大地被创造前就堕落了,是弥尔顿,在弥尔顿之前没有别的诗人,能够最终印证这个记录,弥尔顿在这里坚持的是,所有异教神原本都是堕落天使。
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