The speech of Saint Peter seems, I think, in a lot of ways to be a lot more like a fire and brimstone sermon than it is a passage in a pastoral poem.

我认为圣彼得的演说，在很多方面似乎很像是一场关于炼狱磨难的布道,而不是田园诗中的一段。

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If you ever read the Book of Apocalypse--or Revelation -you know it's hellfire and brimstone, the day of judgment, damnation--election into the group of the blessed, and so on.

如果你曾读过《启示录》或《天意》,你知道那些地狱火和硫磺,审判日,诅咒,获选受到保佑的人们,诸如此类

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