サタン
SATAN(さたん)[/ˈseɪtən/]名詞
解説
付記
申してみよ。 人間が間もなく創られようとしていると聞き及んでおります。 彼らには法律が必要でしょう。 何だと、不届き者め! お前は永遠の昔からヤツの魂を憎むべく定められた敵ではないか。 そのお前が、ヤツらの法律を作る権利を寄こせと言うのか? いえ、滅相もございません。私がお願いしたいのは、 彼らが自分自身で法律を作ることを許してやってほしい、 ということなのです。 よかろう、認めよう。
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Original
One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. "There is one favor that I should like to ask," said he.
Additional notes
Name it. Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws. What, wretch! you his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul—you ask for the right to make his laws? Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself. It was so ordered.