Scholarship on Leviathan has not fully explored the distinctive pattern of language that Hobbes used to invoke the central conceit of the treatise—“that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH.” This note highlights an earlier instance of that rare linguistic construction, one that presented a similar image of political monstrosity several years before Hobbes’s metaphor was published. Verses in Honour of the Reverend and Learned Judge of the Law, Judge Jenkin (1648) celebrated the jurist David Jenkins as a royalist martyr in the fight against “That Giant monster call’d a multitude.” It is possible that the pamphlet might have circulated among the network of English exiles in France, offering Hobbes a linguistic model with which to reconceptualize the early modern understanding of political community.

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“那个巨大的怪物叫了很多人”

关于利维坦的学术研究尚未充分探索霍布斯用来援引该论文中心论点的独特语言模式——“伟大的利维坦称为共同体。” 这篇笔记强调了这种罕见的语言结构的早期实例，在霍布斯的隐喻发表几年前，它就呈现出类似的政治怪物形象。为纪念这位牧师和博学的法律法官，詹金法官（1648 年）庆祝法学家大卫詹金斯作为保皇党殉道者在与“那个被称为群众的巨型怪物”的斗争中。这本小册子有可能在法国的英国流亡者网络中流传，为霍布斯提供了一种语言模型，可以用来重新概念化对政治共同体的早期现代理解。