《复乐园》里的耶稣——基督式英雄之原型

Jesus in Paradise Regained: The prototype of the Christian hero

以弥尔顿本人的"反三位一体"神学观为切入点,以史诗《复乐园》中不为学界关注的第二重诱惑为主要文本分析对象,从两方面解读史诗英雄耶稣。首先,弥尔顿为全面展现耶稣的"内在精神"之品质,基于认知层面的第一重诱惑而设计了第二重诱惑,具体针对耶稣在物质、知识和意志另三个层面的需求;正是恶魔撒旦的持续诱惑使耶稣展示为"特选的完人,去拯救世人"。其次,弥尔顿设置耶稣抵御撒旦时的回应始终"简短",而这是对抗邪恶最有效的回击策略。这两点共同构成弥尔顿将耶稣塑造为"基督式英雄之原型"的匠心。

The present essay, by taking Milton’s own theology of Anti-Trinity as the perspective and by focusing on thesecond try of temptations in Paradise Regained as the major object of textual analysis, attempts to interpret the epichero Jesus from two aspects. First, Milton, in order to exhibit comprehensively Jesus’s qualities of “the Spirit within,”on the basis of the first temptation aiming at the cognitive level of knowing oneself, devises the second try oftemptations to target Jesus’s needs at another three levels in the material, the intellectual and will; it is Devil Satan’sinsistent temptations that help display Jesus as “the perfect man…/To carn Salvation for the Sons of men.” Second,Jesus’s resistance to all Satan’s temptations has been “brief” all through, which suggests the most effective strategy ofcounter-attack against the evil. These two aspects combine to expose Milton’s artistry in characterizing Jesus as theprototype of the Christian Hero.