“撒旦”怎么会翻译成“the great fisher of souls”

“撒旦”怎么会翻译成“the great fisher of souls”

the great fisher of souls 本身应该没有贬意,去google 了一下,发现这个词也被用来形容上帝和基督,例如:1.It could also mean the Christ Child the great fisher of souls held in His mothers arms. 2.Jesus was the Great Fisher of souls who was continually fishing and at the same time training other fishers3.Here God presents Himself as the great Fisher of Souls, imparting His piscatorial, as elsewhere His pastoral, office to His Aposdes.最后在一处字典中找到:Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—FFisher of Souls(The great). The devil.“I trust, young man, that neither idleness nor licentious pleasure ... the chief baits with which the great Fisher of souls conceals his hooks, are the causes of your declining the career to which I would incite you.” —Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap.xi. 大概在这本书中great Fisher of souls 被用来形容魔鬼,以后才有魔鬼之意.不过这种用法并不常见.

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