John Milton on Luke 23:43 / Ο Τζον Μίλτον σχετικά με το Λουκάς 23:43

Septimus locus est Luc. xxiii. 43. tum dixit ei Jesus, Amen dico tibi, hodie mecum eris in paradiso. Multo variis de causis exercuit his locus, usque eo ut interpunctionem etiam tollere non dubitarint; ut si sic scriptum esset, dico tibi hodie, id est, etiamsi hodie miserrimus et contemptissimus videar esse omnibus, tibi tamen dico, atque confirmo, fore te mecum in paradiso; id est, in loco aliquo amœno (nam paradisus proprie cœlum non est) sive statu cum animœ tum corporis spirituali.

Τζον Μίλτον / John Milton,

De doctrina christiana
[Περί του χριστιανικού δόγματος],

Typis Academicis, excudit Joannes Smith, 1825.

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John Milton's verse rendition of Psalm 8 /Η κατά στίχο απόδοση του 8ου Ψαλμού από τον Τζον Μίλτον

PSAL. VIII.

[Aug. 14. 1653.]

O Jehovah, our Lord, how wondrous great
And glorious is thy name through all the earth!
So as above the Heavens thy praise to set
Out of the tender mouths of latest bearth,

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou [ 5 ]
Hast founded strength because of all thy foes,
To stint th' enemy, and slack th' avengers brow
That bends his rage thy providence to oppose.

When I behold thy Heavens, thy Fingers art,
The Moon and Starrs which thou so bright hast set [ 10 ]
In the pure firmament, then saith my heart,
O what is man that thou remembrest yet,

And think'st upon him? or of man begot
That him thou visit'st and of him art found?
Scarce to be less then Gods, thou mad'st his lot, [ 15 ]
With honour and with state thou hast him crown'd.

O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him Lord,
Thou hast put all under his lordly feet,
All Flocks, and Herds, by thy commanding word,
All beasts that in the field or forrest meet; [ 20 ]

Fowl of the Heavens, and Fish that through the wet
Sea-paths in shoals do slide. And know no dearth.
O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great
And glorious is thy name through all the earth.

* John Milton / Τζον Μίλτον,
Psalms / Ψαλμοί.
New York: Solomon King Publ., 1831,
p./σ. 106. *
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