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我竭力向我的仆人星期五揭发这一骗局。我告诉他，那些老人假装到山里去对贝纳木基说"哦"，完全是骗人的把戏。他们说他们把贝纳木基的话带回来，更是骗人的诡计。我对他说，假如他们在那儿真的听到什么，真的在那边同什么人谈过话，那也一定是魔鬼。然后，我用很长的时间跟他谈魔鬼的问题：魔鬼的来历，他对上帝的反叛，他对人类的仇恨及其原因，他怎样统治着世界最黑暗的地方，叫人像礼拜上帝一样礼拜他，以及他怎样用种种阴谋诡计诱惑人类走上绝路，又怎样偷偷潜入我们的情欲和感情，迎合着我们的心理来安排他的陷阱，使我们自己诱惑自己，甘心走上灭亡的道路。 I found it was not so easie to imprint right Notions in his Mind about the Devil, as it was about the Being of a God. Nature assisted all my Arguments to Evidence to him, even the Necessity Of a great first Cause and over-ruling governing Power; a secret directing Providence, and of the Equity, and Justice, of paying Homage to him that made us, and the like. But there appeared nothing of all this in the Notion of an evil Spirit; of his Original, his Being, his Nature, and above all of his Inclination to do Evil, and to draw us in to do so too; and the poor Creature puzzl'd me once in such a manner, by a Question meerly natural and innocent, that I scarce knew what to say to him. I had been talking a great deal to him of the Power of God, his Omnipotence, his dreadful Nature to Sin, his being a consuming Fire to the Workers of Iniquity; how, as he had made us all, he could destroy us and all the World in a Moment; and he listen'd with great Seriousness to me all the while. 我发现，让他对上帝的存在获得正确的观念还算容易，但要使他对魔鬼有正确的认识，就不那么容易了。我可以根据许多自然现象向他证明，天地间必须要有一个最高的主宰，一种统治一切的力量，一种冥冥中的引导者，并向他证明，崇敬我们自己的创造者，是完全公正合理的，如此等等，不一而足。可是，关于魔鬼的观念，他的起源，他的存在，他的本性，特别是他一心作恶并引诱人类作恶的意图等等，我却找不出现成的证明。因此，有一次，这可怜的家伙向我提出了一个又自然又天真的问题，就一下子把我难住了，简直不知怎样回答他才好。在此以前，我一直跟他谈关于上帝的问题：上帝的权威，上帝的全知全能，上帝嫉恶如仇的本性，以及他怎样用烈火烧死那些奸恶不义之徒。关于这些问题，我同他谈得很多。我还向他谈到，上帝既然创造了万物，他也可以在一刹那间把全世界和我们全人类都毁灭。在我谈话的时候，他总是非常认真地听着。 After this, I had been telling him how the Devil was God's Enemy in the Hearts of Men, and used all his Malice and Skill to defeat the good Designs of Providence, and to ruine the Kingdom of Christ in the World; and the like. Well, says Friday, but you say, God is so strong, so great, is he not much strong, much might as the Devil? Yes, yes, says I, Friday, God is stronger than the Devil, God is above the Devil, and therefore we pray to God to tread him down under our Feet, and enable us to resist his Temptations and quench his fiery Darts. But, says he again, if God much strong, much might as the Devil, why God no kill the Devil, so make him no more do wicked? I was strangely surpriz'd at his Question, and after all, tho' I was now an old Man, yet I was but a young Doctor, and ill enough quallified for a Casuist, or a Solver of Difficulties And at first I could not tell what to say, so I pre tended not to hear him, and ask'd him what he said? But he was too earnest for an Answer to forget his Question; so that he repeated it in the very same broken Words, as above. By this time I had recovered my self a little, and I said, God will at last punish him severely; he is reserv'd for the Judgment, and is to be cast into the Bottomless-Pit, to dwell with ever lasting Fire. This did not satisfie Friday, but he returns upon me, repeating my Words, RESERVE, AT LAST, me no understand; but, Why not kill the Devil now, not kill great ago? You may as well ask me, said I, Why God does not kill you and I, when we do wicked Things here that offend him? We are preserv'd to repent and be pardon'd: He muses a while at this; mell, All, says he, mighty affectionately, that well; so you, I, Devil, all wicked, all preserve, repent, God pardon all. Here I was run down again by him to the last Degree, and it was a Testimony to me, how the meer Notions of Nature, though they will guide reasonable Creatures to the Know ledge of a God, and of a Worship or Homage due to the supreme Being, of God as the Consequence of our Nature; yet nothing but divine Revelation can form the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of a Redemption purchas'd for us, of a Mediator of the new Covenant, and of an Intercessor, at the Foot-stool of God's Throne; I say, nothing but a Revelation from Heaven, can form these in the Soul, and that therefore the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; I mean, the Word of God, and the Spirit of God promis'd for the Guide and Sanctifier of his People, are the absolutely necessary Instructors of the Souls of Men, in the saving Knowledge of God, and the Means of Salvation. 然后，我又告诉他，在人们心里，魔鬼是上帝的敌人。他一贯心存恶意，使尽阴谋诡计来破坏上帝善良的计划，试图毁灭世界上的基督天国等等。于是，星期五说："你说，上帝是强大的，伟大的，他不是比魔鬼更强大、更有力吗？""是的，是的，"我说，"星期五，上帝比魔鬼更强大，上帝高于魔鬼。因此，我们应该祈祷上帝，使我们有力量把魔鬼踩在我们的脚下，并使我们有力量抵制他的诱惑，扑灭他的火箭。""可是，""星期五又问，"既然上帝比魔鬼更强大、更有力，为什么上帝不把魔鬼杀死，免得他再作恶事呢？"他这个问题大大出乎我意料之外。因为，尽管我现在年纪已很大了，但作为一个教导别人的老师，却资历很浅，我不善于解决道德良心的问题，也不够资格辩难决疑。我一时不知怎么回答他才好，就只好装作没听清他的话，问他说的是什么。可是，星期五是十分认真的，当然不会忘记他的问题，所以又把刚才提的问题用英语结结巴巴地重复了一遍。这时，我已略略恢复了镇静，就回答他说："上帝最终将严惩魔鬼，魔鬼必定受到审判，并将被投入无底的深渊，经受地狱之火的熬炼，永世不得翻身。"这个回答当然不能使星期五满意，他用我的话回问我："最终、必定，我不懂。但是，为什么不现在就把魔鬼杀掉？为什么不老早就把魔鬼杀掉？"我回答说："你这样问我，就等于问为什么上帝不把你和我杀掉，因为，我们也犯了罪，得罪了上帝。上帝留着我们，是让我们自己有机会忏悔，有机会获得赦免。"他把我的话想了好半天，最后，他显得很激动，并对我说："对啦，对啦，你、我、魔鬼都有罪，上帝留着我们，是让我们忏悔，让我们都获得赦免。"谈到这里，我又被他弄得十分尴尬。他的这些话使我充分认识到，虽然天赋的观念可以使一般有理性的人认识上帝，可以使他们自然而然地对至高无上的上帝表示崇拜和敬礼，然而，要认识到耶稣基督，要认识到他曾经替我们赎罪，认识到他是我们同上帝之间所立的新约的中间人，认识到他是我们在上帝宝座前的仲裁者，那就非要神的启示不可。这就是说，只有神的启示，才能使我们在灵魂里形成这些认识。因此，只有救主耶稣的普渡众生的福音，只有上帝的语言和上帝的圣灵，才能成为人类灵魂绝对不可少的引导者，帮助我们认识上帝拯救人类的道理，以及我们获救的方法。 I therefore diverted the present Discourse between me and my Man, rising up hastily, as upon some sudden Occasion of going out; then sending him for something a good way off, I seriously pray'd to God that he would enable me to instruct savingly this poor Savage, assisting by his Spirit the Heart of the poor ignorant Creature, to receive the Light of the Knowledge of God in Christ, reconciling him to himself, and would guide me to speak so to him from the Word of God, as his Conscience might be convinc'd, hid Eyes open'd, and his Soul sav'd. When he came again to me, I entred into a long Discourse with him upon the Subject of the Redemption of Man by the Saviour of the World, and of the Doctrine of the Gospel preach'd from Heaven, viz. of Repentance towards God, and Faith in our Blessed Lord Jesus. I then explain'd to him, as well as I could, why our Blessed Redeemer took not on him the Nature of Angels, but the Seed of Abraham, and how for that Reason the fallen Angels had no Share in the Redemption; that he came only to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel, and the like. 因此，我马上把我和星期五之间的谈话岔到别的事情上去。我匆匆忙忙站起来，仿佛突然想到一件什么要紧的事情，必须出去一下。同时，我又找了一个借口，把他差到一个相当远的地方去办件什么事。等他走后，我就十分挚诚地祷告上帝，祈求他赐予我教导这个可怜的野人的好方法，祈求他用他的圣灵帮助这可怜无知的人从基督身上接受上帝的真理，和基督结合在一起；同时期求他指导我用上帝的语言同这个野人谈话，以便使这可怜的家伙心悦诚服，睁开眼睛，灵魂得救。当星期五从外面回来时，我又同他进行了长时间的谈话，谈到救世主耶稣代人赎罪的事，谈到从天上来的福音的道理，也就是说，谈到向上帝忏悔、信仰救主耶稣等这一类事情。然后，我又尽可能向他解释，为什么我们的救主不以天使的身份出现，而降世为亚伯拉罕的后代，为什么那些被贬谪的天使不能替人类赎罪，以及耶稣的降生是为了挽救迷途的以色列人等等道理。 I had, God knows, more Sincerity than Knowledge, in all the Methods I took for this poor Creature's Instruction, and must acknowledge what I believe all that act upon the same Principle will find, That in laying Things open to him, I really inform'd and instructed my self in many Things, that either I did not know, or had not fully consider'd before; but which occurr'd naturally to my Mind, upon my searching into them, for the Information of this poor Savage; and I had more Affection in my Enquiry after Things upon this Occasion, than ever I felt before; so that whether this poor wild Wretch was the better for me, or no, I had great Reason to be thankful that ever he came to me: My Grief set lighter upon me, my Habitation grew comfortable to me beyond Measure; and when I reflected that in this solitary Life which I had been confin'd to, I had not only been moved my self to look up to Heaven, and to seek to the Hand that had brought me there; but was now to be made an Instrument under Providence to save the Life, and for ought I knew, the Soul of a poor Savage, and bring him to the true Knowledge of Religion, and of the Christian Doctrine, that he might know Christ Jesus, to know whom is Life eternal. I say, when I reflected upon all these Things, a secret Joy run through every Part of my Soul, and I frequently rejoyc'd that ever I was brought to this Place, which I had so often thought the most dreadful of all Afflictions that could possibly have befallen me. 事实上，在教导他的时候，我所采用的方法，诚意多于知识。同时，我也必须承认，在向他说明这些道理时，我自己在不少问题上也获得了很多知识；这些问题有的我过去自己也不了解，有的我过去思考得不多，现在因为要教导星期五，自然而然地进行了深入的思考。我想，凡是诚心帮助别人的人，都会有这种边教边学的体会。我感到自己现在探讨这些问题的热情比以前更大了。所以，不管这个可怜的野人将来对我是否有帮助，我也应该感谢他的出现。现在，我不再像以前那样整日愁眉苦脸了，生活也逐渐愉快起来。每当我想到，在这种孤寂的生活中，我不但自己靠近了上帝，靠近了造物主，而且还受到了上帝的启示，去挽救一个可怜的野人的生命和灵魂，使他认识了基督教这一唯一正宗的宗教和基督教义的真谛，使他认识了耶稣基督，而认识耶稣基督就意味着获得永生。每当想到这里，我的灵魂便充满快乐，这是一种真正内心感觉到的欢愉。现在我觉得我能流落到这荒岛上来，实在是一件值得庆幸的事，而在此之前，我却认为是我生平最大的灾难呢！ 
我怀着这种感恩的心情，度过了我在岛上的最后几年。在我和星期五相处的三年中，因为有许多时间同他谈话，日子过得完满幸福，如果在尘世生活中真有 "完满幸福"的话。这野人现在已成了一个虔诚的基督徒，甚至比我自己还要虔诚。当然，我完全有理由希望，并为此我要感谢上帝，我们两人都能成为真正悔罪的人，并从悔罪中得到安慰，彻底洗心革面，改过自新。在这里，我们有《圣经》可读，这就意味着我们离圣灵不远，可以获得他的教导，就像在英国一样。 I always apply'd my self in Reading the Scripture, to let him know, as well as I could, the Meaning of what I read; and he again, by his serious Enquiries, and Questionings, made me, as I said before, a much better Scholar in the Scripture Knowledge, than I should ever have been by my own private meer Reading. Another thing I cannot refrain from observing here also from Experience, in this retir'd Part of my Life,viz. How infinite and inexpressible a Blessing it is, that the Knowledge of God, and of the Doctrine of Salvation by Christ Jesus, is so plainly laid down in the Word of God; so easy to be receiv'd and understood: That as the bare reading the Scripture made me capable of understanding enough of my Duty, to carry me directly on to the great Work of sincere Repentance for my Sins, and laying hold of a Saviour for Life and Salvation, to a stated Reformation in Practice, and Obedience to all God's Commands, and this without any Teacher or Instructer; I mean, humane; so the same plain Instruction sufficiently serv'd to the enlightning this Savage Creature, and bringing him to be such a Christian, as I have known few equal to him in my Life. 我经常诵读《圣经》，并尽量向他解释《圣经》中那些词句的意义。星期五也认真钻研，积极提问。这使我对《圣经》的知识比一个人阅读时钻研得更深，了解得更多了。这一点我前面也已提到。此外，根据我在岛上这段隐居生活的经历，我还不得不提出一点自己的体会。我觉得关于对上帝的认识和耶稣救人的道理，在《圣经》中写得这样明明白白，这样容易接受，容易理解，这对人类实在是一种无限的、难以言喻的幸福。因为，仅仅阅读《圣经》，就能使自己认识到自己的责任，并勇往直前地去担负起这样一个重大的任务：真诚地忏悔自己的罪行，依靠救主耶稣来拯救自己，在实践中改造自己，服从上帝的一切指示；而所有这些认识，都是在没有别人的帮助和教导下获得的（这儿的"别人"，我是指自己的同类--人类），而只要自己阅读《圣经》就能无师自通。而且，这种浅显明白的教导，还能启发这个野人，使他成为我生平所少见的虔诚的基督徒。
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