as harmless as doves and as wise as serpent in mere christianity

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1、AsHarmlessasDovesandAsWiseasSerpentinMereChristianity　　CliveStaplesLewis（Lewishereafter）wasesteemedas“thegreatestOxfordmaninthe20thcentury”，whoplaysmanyrolesintheliteraryfields.HisworkMereChristianityhasinfluencedthousandsofitsreaderssince1952.Ithasal

2、waysmaintaineditsthetoppopularityinwesternChristianworld，anditstillwinsaglobalAmentillthisday.　　MereChristianityisabookthatbegstobereadinitshistoricalcontext，asaboldactofstorytellingandhealinginaworldgonemad.Inthisbook，C.S.Lewisquotesafamoussayingfrom

3、theBible，drawingapicturethatofaBiblicalChristian，thatis，“asharmlessasdovesandaswiseasserpent”.However，itsmeaningremindsuncleartomanyofitsreaders，especiallywhenitwastranslatedinChinese.　　Thequotations“Asharmlessasdoves”and“aswiseasserpents”wereactually

4、fromMatthewintheKingJamesBiblewhenJesuswasgivingexhortationtoHistwelvedisciplestoGalileanvillagers：“Behold，Isendyouforthassheepinthemidstofwolves：beyethereforewiseasserpents，andharmlessasdoves.”Buttotranslatethemeaningsofthisquotation，theword“harmless

5、”and“wise”arethekeypoints，forthe“harmless”aspectofthedovesandthe“wise”partofthesnakearethepointsMatthewandLewiswantstoemphasize.IntheBible，theserpentwastheacceptedastheemblemofwisdom（Genesis3：1），anditiswary，sharp-sighted（Grotius），flexible，andcunningev

6、enithastheevilpurpose；theword“harmless”waswrittenas“?νου?”inSeptuagintand“?κ?ραιοι”inmodernGreek，whichmeans“intact，unmixedwithevil，purelygood”.Therefore，thisideaof“beharmlessasdoves”and“bewiseasserpent”isthecombinationoftheintentionofthedovesandthestr

7、ategyoftheserpent.Intermsoftheintention，itshouldbepurelygood；intermsofthestrategy，thedisciplesshouldbeliketheserpent，wise，flexible，sharp-sighted.ThispictureintheBiblewasfurtherexplainedbyLewisas“He（God）wantsachild’sheart，butagrown-up’shead”，whichisequ

8、ivalentinageneralsensesinceachildisusuallyharmlessandagrown-upisnormallystrategicandmature.　　Inthiscase，thetranslatorseemsadoptedthedirectliteraltranslation，evenwiththelinguisticdevicesofquotationremained.Althoughtheliteraltranslationofthe“?k要