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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS 天路歷程
by John Bunyan
Introduction
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain
place where was a den (the gaol), and I laid me down in that place to sleep:
and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed; and behold, I saw a man clothed
with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house,
a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him
open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled﹕
"For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are
too heavy for me." Psalm 38:4
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away." Isaiah 64:6
"So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath,
he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33
"For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape,
if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken
by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;" Hebrews
2:2, 3 上面三段都是引自聖經裡的章節
And, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry,
saying, "What shall I do?" 這段是描述
"Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto
Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
Acts 2:37 這也摘自聖經
In this plight, therefore, he went home, and refrained himself as long as
he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but
he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased: wherefore
at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began
to talk to them: "O my dear wife," said he, "and you the children of my bowels,
I, your dear friend, am in myself undone, by reason of a burden that lies
hard upon me; moreover, I am for certain informed, that this our city will
be burned with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself,
with thee, my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin;
except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby
we may be delivered." At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that
they believed that what he had said to them was true, but because they thought
that some frenzy distemper had got into his head; therefore, it drawing
towards night, and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with
all haste they got him to bed: but the night was as troublesome to him as
the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears.
So, when the morning was come, they would know how he did: he told them,
"Worse and worse." He also set to talking to them again; but they began
to be hardened. They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and
surly conduct to him: sometimes they would deride; sometimes they would chide;
and sometimes they would quite neglect him. Wherefore he began to retire
himself to his chamber, to pray for and pity them, and also to condole his
own misery. He would also walk solitarily in the fields, sometimes reading
and sometimes praying; and thus for some days he spent his time.
1) 生詞自查。
2) 作者介紹﹕John Bunyan (28 November 1628 -- 31 August 1688) was an English
Christian writer and preacher, who is well-known for his book The Pilgrim's
Progress. As his popularity and notoriety grew, Bunyan increasingly became
a target for slander and libel; he was described as "a witch, a Jesuit,
a highwayman" and was said to have mistresses and multiple wives. In 1658,
aged 30, he was arrested for preaching at Eaton Socon and indicted for preaching
without a licence. This book was written from a prison cell.
3) 該書介紹﹕The Pilgrim's Progress is a Christian allegory written by John
Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most
significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into
more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print.
4) 內容提示﹕Christian, an everyman character, is the protagonist of the
allegory, which centres itself in his journey from his hometown, the "City
of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is
to come": Heaven) atop Mt. Zion. Christian is weighed down by a great burden,
the knowledge of his sin, which he believed came from his reading "the book
in his hand", (the Bible). This burden, which would cause him to sink into
Tophet (hell), is so unbearable that Christian must seek deliverance. 欲
知故事發展詳情﹐可把書名輸入古狗。
5) Bunyan的“天路歷程”對²
'7b在的英文學習者可能很陌生﹐甚或沒聽說過。所以找來泛讀一下﹐也可擴大文學
知識。現在介紹資料已達41期。杜甫曰﹕讀書破萬卷﹐下筆如有神。要寫好就要多
讀。
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