Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

You may view the land from a distance, but you shall not enter it the land that I am giving to the Israelite people.So what happened at Meribath-kadesh that made God so angry?

我所赐给以色列人的地，你可以远远看见,却不得进去那么在米利巴水究竟发生了什么,使上帝这样愤怒？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And Deuteronomy is also something of a loyalty oath, except that the people are pledging their loyalty to a god rather than to a human king.

申命记也是一种忠诚试验，虽然人们是,对神宣誓他们的忠诚而不是对一个人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Also,some people may find that manufactured cells threaten their belief that only God should create life.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Do you think there is something about the people who in a situation of depravation that makes them more inclined towards acknowledging God's presence?

你觉得是否有这样一类人,不健全的人生使得他们,更愿意去相信上帝的存在？

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Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural, the law of God.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.

希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

At that time, people prayed to Horus, the god of the Sun.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

So, for absolute rulers, the link to religion you can read about, but there's always the sense that he or she is doing God's will by exploiting ordinary peasants, ordinary people and conquering other territories.

所以对于绝对统治者,你会在书本上读到他们与宗教之间的联系,但是存在这样一种观点,即绝对统治者是代天授命,所以他们有理由剥削民众并且扩张领土

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

That people were conceived, whether by nature or by God or even by evolution, with a certain order to them; some born to do this and some born to do that and some born to do that.

即人的等级已经被设定好了,不管是被自然还是上帝,还是进化使然,天命不可违,有人天生做这种事,有人天生做那种事等等

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Let's go from here," he said "Let's scrap the bill. Let's build health care reform that respects the limited government and liberty of the American people, so help us God!" Grassroots conservatives, many of them members of the so-called Tea Party movement, are out in force at the rally, eager to spread their anti-Obama, anti-tax,anti-big government message.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Now, as has long been noted, the Exodus event became the paradigm of God's salvation of his people, and when I say salvation, I don't mean that in the later Christian sense of personal salvation from sin.

就像一直标注的那样，《出埃及记》成为,上帝拯救他子民的范本，这里的拯救,并不是指后来基督教的把人从原罪中拯救出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Most of these episodes will occur in the book of Numbers, and they involve the rebellion of the people in some way, generally God's fury in reaction to that rebellion, Moses' intervention usually on behalf of the people, and God's appeasement.

许多片段都将发生在《民数记》中，其中还涉及到人们的背叛，然后是上帝对人们背叛的怒火，摩西一般都是代表人民进行干涉，安抚上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But they also serve another very important function, and that was the formation and maintenance of a differentiated ethnic identity or in Priestly parlance, the formation and maintenance of a holy peoples separated out from other nations by rules that mark her as God's people.

但是它们也有另外一个很重要的功能，这个功能形成并维护了,一个分化的种族身份，或者用神职人员的说法，这些规则促使了神圣民族的形成和保持,这个民族和其他的城邦区别开来，被标记为上帝的子民。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some scholars refer to Deuteronomy as a kind of counter treaty, if you will, right? A subversive document that's trying to shift the people's loyalty from the Assyrian overlord to God, the true sovereign, and it's part of a national movement.

有些学者把申命记看做是一份对应的条约，如果你会这样的话，是吗？一份颠覆性的条约，试图将人们的忠诚,从亚述帝王那里引向上帝，真正的统治者，并且这是一次全国性行动的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entails the idea that Israel is a holy people, holy in the sense of separated to God that root meaning of holiness which means to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

我上次提到了《申命记》中的一个事实,以色列被选择，上帝选择以色列意味着,以色列是神圣的民族，对于上帝他们是分离的,这便是神圣的根本意义,意味着与一般和普通分离。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Orthodoxy maintains the traditions that we believe came from Mount Sinai, that God gives to Moses or people observing Jews, Traditional Jews, Orthodox Jews We keep laws, Oral Torah and within the old tradition.

正统派恪守传统,我们相信这些传统来自于西奈山，在那里上帝将这些传授给摩西和,遵从的犹太教徒，传统犹太教徒，犹太教正统派教徒,我们按照古老的传统遵守法律，口头教律。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选